Report takes aim at high schools
In a strong editorial endorsement of AIMS' new high school report card, Grading Our Future, the Editorial Board of the St. John’s Telegram gently chides the report’s critics in the educational establishment for their “ostrich-like” attitude in counselling parents to refuse even to read the document. And how should Newfoundlanders and Atlantic Canadians regard the High School Report Card? The editorial argues that, …the study, like or lump it, is an extensive and expensive effort, and the think-tank should be congratulated for its initiative. There is great value in talking about what makes schools good or bad, and looking at ways that various schools can learn about their comparative strengths and weaknesses, and, as part of that, how they can improve. A most AIMS-like conclusion…
Grading our Future
In 2003 AIMS released the broadest set of public information ever presented on Atlantic Canadian secondary schools. The much-anticipated Report Card paints a rich, complex picture of the unique nature and performance of each high school in the region. The first in an ongoing project to provide transparency in education.
AIMS Releases Report Card On Atlantic High Schools
“A powerful tool in understanding what is going on in our schools.” – Brian Lee Crowley, President, AIMS
AIMS On-Line for early March 2003
AIMS Releases first Report Card On Atlantic High Schools, Peter Fenwick on Newfoundland's Failed Welfare Reform, Atlantic Canada and the Canada - US Border of the Future, Immigrants and Atlantic Canada, AIMS before Commons Committee and AIMS' Swedish health care project garners national attention.
Atlantic Canadians are starting to see that federal ‘generosity’ is pure poison
In this article for the Citizen Centre Report Magazine, AIMS President Brian Lee Crowley makes outlines AIMS’ intellectual contributions to Atlantic Canada’s quiet economic revolution.
ACOA Watch Number 1 – Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! The Numbers Game
ACOA Watch is a new publication of AIMS that is intended to provide an independent and critical analysis of the efforts and activities of ACOA. Taxpaers will be able to look to this regular AIMS' series for the information they need for an informed debate about the relative merits of this taxpayer-funded program and its real contribution to the region's economic well being.