Leading the way:
NL student performance proof public reporting of data makes a difference.
Make it a PUBLIC education system:
NS students, parents and educators still in the dark
Encouraging Signs from PEI
No testing for high schools, but school level reporting for elementary and middle school assessments a step in the right direction
AIMS 6th Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools
Making performance data public on a school by school basis has been proven to improve student performance. The AIMS 6th Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools proves that leaders can become laggards by ignoring that proof, and laggards can become leaders by embracing it.
AIMS says N.B., N.S., reluctant to make student performance data public
Within minutes of release of the AIMS 6th Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools, the story was on the 'news wire'. The message clear, to know what's going on in our classrooms school by school grades need to be made public by departments of education and school boards.
Provincial high school ranking inaccurate, says Hurley
Not everyone agrees with the AIMS Annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools, but it certainly generates debate on the state of education, as this article proves.
The more we know, the better our schools are
AIMS puts OECD advice to work in 6th edition of the AIMS Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools
From Leaders to Laggards in five short years:
Lack of testing and reporting continues to hamper New Brunswick Anglophone Schools
Media Advisory – AIMS News Conference
Release of AIMS 6th Annual REport Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools
Tuition freeze not enough: students
In this pre-budget story, AIMS acting president Charles Cirtwill points out that a tuition freeze is not the way to help post-secondary students. He says the New Brunswick government is following a trend that hasn't proven very efficient rather than forging ahead with innovative policies to address student debt, population growth, and access to a university education.