Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta’s Bill 24 ignores the fact that predators thrive in an environment where secrets are kept from parents
Category: Education
The complexity, nuance and truth at the heart of residential schools
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s instructive that no credible alternative to the residential schools has ever been put forward
Market principles offer solutions to teacher shortage
Reading Time: 3 minutes One way to increase the applicants is to make the job more desirable, particularly by paying more
Can B.C. climb back to the education mountaintop?
Reading Time: 3 minutes For almost 20 years, the government has been at war with the teaching profession. New contract talks can change that
When diversity and inclusion result in reverse racism
Reading Time: 6 minutes Let’s face it: Universities are no longer educational institutions but political organizations engaged in social engineering
White privilege or simply elite posturing?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Creating a society in which everything is viewed in terms of race will divide our nation and breed resentment
The folly of embracing universal daycare
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quebec’s experience with government-subsidized daycare should serve as a warning for B.C.
Meet the next generation of leaders in Eastern Europe
Reading Time: 4 minutes A visiting professor to Lithuania discovers a generation of bright, committed and principled students who aspire to change their world
Embracing minorities shouldn’t lead to penalizing the majority
Reading Time: 4 minutes The protection of minorities does not include minority rule or the raising of minority interests above those of the majority
Reading comprehension depends on content knowledge
Reading Time: 3 minutes A student may be able to decode every single word in an article but still be clueless about the meaning since they know virtually nothing about the subject