Is The Education System Failing Students?
Callers react to the first snow storm of the season. Is the education system failing students?
Evictions, Biosolids and Snow Days
Paul Bennett with Schoolhouse Consulting chats with us on the motion on snow days at HRM school board tonight
School Gyms and Snow Days
Paul Bennett - school house consulting - do kids in NB/NS get too many storm days?
Changes Made to Standardized Testing
AIMS President and CEO Charles Cirtwill discusses changes made to standardized testing.
Small town high schools get highest ranking in Sask.
For the second year in a row Saskatchewan rural high schools have been ranked higher than those in larger cities, according to an AIMS and FCPP study that graded 170 schools.
Second Annual Report Card on Western Canadian High Schools
AIMS and FCPP have released the second annual Report Card on Western Canadian High Schools (Manitoba and Saskatchewan edition), which ranks high schools from Manitoba and Saskatchewan based on the AIMS model.
For Immediate Release: Second Annual Western High Schools Report Card Released
AIMS and FCPP released the second annual Report Card on Western Canadian High Schools (Manitoba and Saskatchewan edition). The report card ranks high schools from Manitoba and Saskatchewan based on the AIMS model.
Standardized exams: We learn by testing twice
The Chronicle Herald Editorial Board agrees with AIMS Fellow in Common Sense Education Reform Michael Zwaagstra that standardized testing must occur in both grades 10 and 12.
Why not gauge progress with a follow-up exam?
In this op-ed, AIMS Fellow in Common Sense Education Michael Zwaagstra argues that standardized testing should occur in both grade 10 and 12- not just one or the other.
Standard exams changing
As the NS Education Department is moving standardized testing for high school math and literacy from Grade 12 to Grade 10, Charles Cirtwill said adding a test in Grade 10 is fine, but without an additional Grade 12 exam, educators won’t be able to assess any improvements or failings.