Pressure from AIMS finally has the Nova Scotia Department of Education releasing school by school student achievement data. AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill explains that it's not just the release of data that is important, but the use of that information to improve the education syste school by school that matters.
Finally, the Halifax Regional School Board is going to do what AIMS has said is in the best interest of public education - release school by school results. In this article in the Chronicle-Herald, AIMS Executive Vice President, Charles Cirtwill, speaks about the Nova Scotia Teachers Union's objection to publishing the results from the standardized tests.
In this op/ed in The National Post, AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill explains why choice works in public education. He says residents of Ontario should be fighting to increase choice in their province, not encouraging a monopoly.
This op/ed by AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill appeared in newspapers around Nova Scotia. It explains why the provincial government missed out on an opportunity for real reform when it reviewed chool board governance. Cirtwill says it's time for Nova Scotia to embrace school choice and site-based management.
Tweaking school board governance in Nova Scotia isn't going to solve the problems facing the province's public education system. This story in the Chronicle-Herald is based on AIMS' submission to the provincial government on how to fix the system.
This Paper is based on a submission to the Nova Scotia government on school board governance. It explains why schools and school communities, not the Minister of Education, should call the shots in public education.
School Board governance consultation should have gone back to basics
This blog, posted early in September, takes a look at public education, and uses some of AIMS' extensive work on education choice to make its points.
This story, posted on an education weblog, explains how AIMS Executive Vice President Charles Cirtwill sees the future of post-second education. You can get pretty well any degree, from anywhere.
The future of Higher Education is online. Charles Cirtwill, AIMS Executive Vice President, told participants at the What's Next? policy forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cirtwill identified Mount Saint Vincent University as the local market leader in distance education allowing access to post secondary education to those that cannot participate in the traditional classroom model.