When the provincial government failed to release the school by school math exam results, AIMS did. The resulting Commentary, called "The numbers Don't Add Up" caused more than a little debate in the news media.
AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Bobby O’Keefe is featured in this National Post article that covers the Commentary: The Numbers Don’t Add Up. O’Keefe points out that the province would better serve students if it marked provincial math exams centrally and reported the data at the school level.
Latest Education Commentary shows math marks higher than a NS provincial report suggests.
AIMS Senior Policy Analyst Bobby O`Keefe speaks out on Nova Scotia provincial math exam results in this article from the Halifax Daily News. O`Keefe is the author of a Commentary, The Numbers Don`t Add Up, that examines the provincial reporting of the results and measures for improving.
FOIPOP Shows Math Marks Higher Than Provincial Report Would Suggest
This edition of The Beacon covers an extensive array of AIMS issues and includes media articles, Commentaries as well as events.
Pictou Academy in Nova Scotia credits AIMS and its annual high school report card for helping it develop a continuous evaluation and improvement process, as well as an innovative programme that allows high school students to obtain college credits.
People are working in New Brunswick. Employment is at a 30-year high. When the latest statistics were released, the Times & Transcript in Moncton called AIMS to make sense of the numbers.
AIMS' Commentary on grade inflation made front page news in the Times & Transcript. Author and AIMS Director of Education Policy, Robert Laurie, explains grade inflation just lowers the bar fro students, rather than challenging them to achieve more.
The release of AIMS' study on grade inflation called "Setting them up to fail?" prompted quite a number of news articles including this one in The Canadian Press.