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1. Six reasons to support school choice in Canada

   Using tax money to help parents send their kids to a “private schools” sounds odd, even sacrilegious to some. But it’s common across Europe and half of Canada (where some provinces feature independents schools in their education landscape ...

2. Canadian families may soon benefit from U.S. education reform

   Depending on the outcome of the U.S. elections in November, expanded education choice may become more common in Republican states and likely make inroads in some Democratic states. As with many other significant education movements over ...

3. Ontario teachers should shoulder greater share of strike pain

   We still call them “public schools,” but they no longer consistently serve the public interest. Ontario’s current teacher strikes make this clear. Parents and the public can only watch helplessly as the complex provincial-level ...

4. Overall average provincial scores drop in all three PISA test subjects

   Canadian teens once again performed well in the latest international tests of reading, math and science—but crucially, did less well than in previous assessments. Some 600,000 students in 79 countries took the mainly computer-based tests ...

5. Upcoming PISA results will shed light on student performance across Canada

   The world will soon be in the grip of PISA envy again. On December 3, PISA—the Programme for International Student Achievement—will release results from reading, math and science tests completed by half a million 15-year-old students in ...

6. Independent schools across Canada face diverse regulations

   Canada’s expanding independent school sector is rich in diversity. Not only are parents increasingly choosing from an array of independent schools for their children, but each province regulates and funds independent schools in diverse ...

7. Improving independent school regulation could improve choice for parents

   The costly government-regulated and government-run school systems inherited from the previous century appear unable to adequately serve modern expectations, prompting many to seek new principles to guide the development of better schools ...

8. Independent schools fill gaps in Ontario

   Often opponents of independent schooling—education which exists outside of public government-run schools—invoke caricatures of private schools catering to the ultra-rich. The reality, however, is that independent schools in Ontario ...

9. Better late than never for school choice in Ontario

   This year marks the 30th anniversary of the report from the Commission on Private Schools in Ontario. So it’s a good time to crack open the several hundred pages and consider several proposals that, for a variety of reasons, were ignored ...

10. Ontario parents deserve more choice for their children’s education

    oliver's blog A story in the September 4 th edition of the National Post detailing the cheerful return of Marni Soupcoff’s son to his independent school was an experience shared by parents and their children across the country, even though Ontario is ...