Reading Time: 3 minutes Independent schools provide increased choice and better outcomes for students than the current model Alberta employs
Tag: Alberta education
Children are threatened when secrets are kept from parents
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta’s Bill 24 ignores the fact that predators thrive in an environment where secrets are kept from parents
UCP: go back to school on proposed education reforms
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Alberta party’s proposal to increase funding for independent schools is unlikely to improve education in Alberta
Breaching the fine line between teaching and brainwashing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Being a teacher means making sure your students are exposed to more than one perspective
Alberta’s independent schools provide needed choice, value
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite activist claims, most independent schools in Alberta are not bastions for the rich, but they do fill a critical education niche
Kudos to Toronto, but independent schools still face discrimination
Reading Time: 4 minutes Subjecting parents choosing such schools for their children to extra costs is discriminatory
Despite overheated claims, Alberta public schools aren’t under-funded
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even after adjusting for inflation, the government is spending substantially more per student in the province’s public schools than a decade ago
Teacher’s ‘me too’ clause puts Alberta in a fiscal squeeze
Reading Time: 3 minutes The stakes in collective bargaining sessions remain high. Alberta faces a $10.3-billion budget deficit with more big deficits planned
Getting the facts straight on Alberta independent school funding
Reading Time: 3 minutes The case for Alberta defunding independent schools is being made largely on the basis of mistaken analysis
How being politically correct can muddy complex waters
Reading Time: 3 minutes University of Calgary’s “cultural engagement” guidelines bear little resemblance to the complex relationship that existed between aboriginals and later immigrants