Atlantic Canada is one of the few places in the country that does not allow open school choice, a proven option to improve student performance. This article in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald explains why choice and public reporting of results is important to education reform.
Educators in the Moncton area explain how they use the AIMS annual high school report card to improve student performance and identify problems within schools.
The co-author of AIMS annual high School Report card says New Brunswick's lack of provincial exams in its anglophone system continues to be a problem. In this article, Bobby O'Keefe explains the lack of information severely restricts indepth information about student performance.
In this article educators in New Brunswick admit that the lack of testing in New Brunswick schools provides challenges in determining student achievement. But they suggest that international scores and university scholarships help measure success.
AIMS' Bobby O'Keefe explains some of the measures used in the annual high school report card in this article for a Halifax area newspaper.
This editorial in the Times & Transcript praises the value of the AIMS annual high school report card, and suggests that educators take a look at why rural schools continue to outperform urban schools in the province. It also picks up AIMS' call to reinstate provincial exams.
This editorial in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal supports and praises the AIMS high school report card. It calls on parents and educators to challenge the politicians to introduce province-wide performance indicators and benchmarks for high schools.
In this op-ed energy consultant Gordon Weil explains why Canada needs a regulator for the electricity industry, and he says there is a structure in place that can handle it - the National Energy Board.
In this op-ed in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, AIMS' author Don McIvar suggests complex provincial budgets should be clear, concise and transparent. Something he says they have been severely lacking in the past decade or so.