During the pandemic, most provinces suspended their testing programs.
student performance
May 24, 2022
8:51AM
The proposal includes a hard cap of 20 students in all classrooms and 10,000 new teachers.
April 18, 2022
5:30AM
Students in the province now write numeracy and literacy assessments that don’t count towards their final marks.
April 15, 2022
4:30AM
The province's students, who used to score at the bottom, now score at the Canadian average.
March 29, 2022
9:23AM
The province's Grade 12 exams used to be worth 50 per cent of a student’s final grade compared to 10 per cent this school year.
March 29, 2022
9:16AM
Today's tests place less emphasis on subject-specific knowledge than they once did.
February 11, 2022
8:24AM
Ontario closed schools for 20 weeks between March 2020 and May 2021.
February 3, 2022
9:29AM
Standardized tests measure student academic progress—but also help measure teacher performance.
January 31, 2022
9:36AM
Only 40 per cent of students who participated were proficient in math.