Don’t blame Alberta teachers for declining math grades
When a province mandates a single curriculum, it eliminates diversity and experimentation that can lead to better methods…
Bad news makes headlines, good acts make humanity
For all the advances in the last century, a legacy of wars, gulags and holocausts remind us that things were never good…
Basic subject knowledge best way to improve reading skills
Reading is not just about decoding individual words. In order to read effectively, you must also understand what you’re reading…
University of Calgary selects new president
Dr. Ed McCauley succeeds Dr. Elizabeth Cannon…
Put an end to the use of seclusion rooms for children
We need a national conversation about how Canadian schools can better deal with issues that lead to the use of such rooms…
Independent schools should be encouraged, funded in Ontario
A survey shows that independent school graduates are much more likely to work for the common good. How can that be bad?…
Would you follow orders even when it showed a lack of compassion?
In the early '60s, Yale's professor Stanley Milgram performed an experiment that revealed some interesting observations about human behaviour…
School choice a good first step to quality education in Atlantic Canada
Adopting the Alberta charter school model would give parents and children more choice and allow them to enjoy the benefits of competition…
The pure university we apparently need
Author Warren Treadgold wants conservatives to be in charge. But that doesn't balance the scales, it merely flips them…
There’s never enough for Manitoba’s expensive public schools
It’s time the provincial government took over taxation decisions, merged school divisions and put a lid on spending…
Bow Valley College’s Craig Elias wins international award
The entrepreneur-in-residence was honoured for demonstrating excellence in integrating community entrepreneurship into academic curriculum…
The gutter-low standards of academic journals
They don’t fact check. They don’t edit for clarity. They care nothing about meaning. And a trio of writers have exposed them…
Reckless rhetoric is no way to debate public policy
The basic presumption of democracy requires us to try to understand one another rather than calling opponents murderers…
Turning the sex ed clock back to 1998 puts our youth at risk
LGBTQ youth face additional mental health pressures associated with stigma and discrimination…
Haskayne School of Business launching program to help jump-start careers
Program targeted to recent non-business graduates with no more than two years of work experience…