Rigid focus on seniority hurts teachers and students
By Michael Zwaagstra (AIMS Fellow) Imagine you are a public school principal. You need to hire a teacher and you have two applicants who meet the basic job requirements. The first applicant has ten years of teaching experience and regularly scores outstanding performance reviews. The second has fifteen years of experience but receives only satisfactory performance reviews. Which teacher would [...]
Beyond Meat should look…beyond meat
By Sylvain Charlebois (AIMS Senior Fellow) Beyond Meat lost almost $10 million in its second quarter, but it beat expectations on revenues. Regardless, Beyond Meat is now worth $14 billion U.S. That’s right, $14 billion U.S., and is Wall Street’s best-performing IPO so far this year. Its stock price has increased by more than 800%. Mixed results this week did [...]
Oceans of Opportunity
By John Risley (AIMS Chairman of the Board) *Atlantic Business Magazine, 31 July 2019 Breath-taking. Romantic. Destructive. Peaceful. Scary. Engaging. Frigid. Warm. Inspiring. Perplexing. Despite our close association with the ocean in Atlantic Canada, we know little of its potential and have even less appreciation of the extent to which other nations have learned how to cultivate a relationship with [...]
Expanding Charter Schools in Canada
The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies’ paper An Untapped Potential for Educational Diversity was referenced in an article for the Epoch Times discussing the benefits other Canadian provinces could gain by adopting the Alberta model for charter schools. Read the article here. Read the study here.
Foolish Fads infecting Public Education
AIMS Fellow Michael Zwaagstra discusses education fads and his recent book with the Danielle Smith Show: https://omny.fm/shows/danielle-smith/foolish-fads-infecting-public-education
One Patient One Record: A Folly of NS Health
By David Zitner (AIMS Healthcare Policy Fellow) Is anyone surprised to learn that credit reporting agencies, Facebook, and retail stores scan many sources and gather your personal information? Although many people have several credit cards, several loans, and deal with many retail merchants the credit reporting agencies have no difficulty aggregating your information, from all sources, to learn all about you. [...]