The Report Card on Ontario's Elementary Schools: 2003 Edition collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document.

This speech was presented a Fraser Institute Round Table Luncheon on June 11, 2003.

As The Economist's editor in chief for the past decade, Bill Emmott has had a prime vantage point from which to observe the pageant of world events. In his new book 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century, he combines journalistic insights with historical analysis to show how the challenges of the last hundred years can shed light on those to come in the next hundred.

This annual Report Card is the only one of its kind to analyze relevant, publicly-available data to rate and rank 263 of Alberta's public, separate, private, and francophone high schools. The Report Card provides an objective benchmark against which schools can improve.