Reading Time: 3 minutes Mark Kingwell is vexed by the failure of democracy to silence the speech of those he disagrees with
Category: Education
Back to school: choosing wisely for your children
Reading Time: 3 minutes Independent schools achieve a better balance of good academic, civic, religious and spiritual outcomes
Content knowledge is the foundation of quality education
Reading Time: 3 minutes Content-rich instruction is key to reading comprehension and critical thinking, and it empowers disadvantaged students
Preparing for the coming workplace automation revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Manitoba’s Red River College’s Smart Factory offers a solution by bringing students and industry together
How a traditional exam system fails all students
Reading Time: 3 minutes A good educator recognizes that an intelligent student doesn’t necessarily fit into a conventional box
Statues tell a story that people need to hear
Reading Time: 3 minutes You could fill volumes with the uncomfortable statements uttered in the past by people whom we now revere, from Abraham Lincoln to Mahatma Gandhi
High grades for Canadian students, high praise for their teachers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian students’ results in literacy, mathematics and science are among the best in the world. What drives our schools to be so good?
Environmental propaganda masks positive reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Al Gore, David Suzuki and others would rather scare our children than tell them about the valuable contributions Canada makes every day to protect our planet
Robots in the workforce: resistance is futile, so we must adapt
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nearly half of the Canadian labour force is at high risk of automation within the next two decades, so how should we prepare?
B.C. government wants to fix a school system that isn’t broken
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C. students lead Canada in student performance in several areas while keeping per-student costs in public schools among the lowest in the country