Education
Missing Pieces, an annual report by Denise Doherty-Delorme and Erika Shaker, ranks provinces according to their level of commitment to post-secondary education across four indicators: equity, quality, public accountability and accessibility. Each indicator is comprised of a number of sub-indicators, providing a more complete overview of the state of higher education in each province.
OTTAWA--Manitoba takes the lead and Nova Scotia remains in last place in Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to Canadian post-secondary education. In the fifth year of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' comparative analysis of higher education in each province, BC continues to lose ground, and Quebec slips back to second place.
552 African-American high school students with low skills were expelled from school in Birmingham, Alabama, just before a big state test. Test scores went up and the superintendent got a bonus.
"Maybe in the twenty-first century, satire about the schools is no longer even possible," says U.S. testing critic Susan Ohanian.
Highlights from the Year 2000 Alternative Federal Budget and the Ontario Alternative Budget
The Alternative Budgets
It is startling to learn that amidst the volumes of literature which addresses current trends in public education, a serious consideration of the implications of Noam Chomsky's thought to schooling is almost entirely nonexistent.1
The debate over class size in Alberta's schools has sharpened significantly in the last few months. It has set parents and teachers against government. However, neither research nor polls seem likely to move the provincial government to enforce class sizes in kindergarten through grade 3.