The Beacon - May 21, 2016 | Vol XXII, No. 11 The Bennett Education Paper Last week, we were delighted to publish Paul Bennett's policy paper, "E-Learning in K-12 Schools," which reviews many of the deficiencies in e-learning innovation and experimentation in Atlantic Canada. His paper has been well-discussed and circulated. Please take a look [...]
In the Charlottetown Guardian, AIMS Education Fellow Michael Zwaagstra responds to MLA Sidney MacEwen's push for smaller class sizes. The evidence-based education research, he argues, does not support expensive efforts to reduce class sizes. A far better strategy for improving outcomes is to focus on improving instruction skill from teachers. Read the full article on [...]
In OL Daily, Stephen Downes writes that "E-Learning in K-12 Schools" "captures some of the major problems with the approach in Atlantic Canada, especially the top-down provincially-based organization and management." Read the post here.
Canadian Press writer reports on Paul Bennett’s policy paper for AIMS, entitled “E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation.” The paper details Atlantic Canada's lethargy in e-learning reform. Read the full article on the Telegraph-Journal website. FREDERICTON - A new report says New Brunswick and the Atlantic provinces are falling behind other jurisdictions when [...]
Halifax's Chronicle Herald reports on Paul Bennett's policy paper, entitled "E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation," which contends that the Atlantic provinces have lost the e-learning initiative. Read the full article on the Chronicle Herald website. A new report from a Maritime think tank says schools in Atlantic Canada have fallen way [...]
E-Learning in K-12 Schools The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation A report by Paul W. Bennett E-Learning in K-12 Schools examines how Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador lost the e-learning initiative, why centralized top-down “21st century learning” visions run aground, and how school system constraints – common to bricks-and-mortar schooling [...]
The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) today released a report about how school systems in Atlantic Canada are slow to adopt to changing teaching methods and are falling behind other jurisdictions in the transition to e-learning in schools. The study, entitled E-Learning in K-12 Schools: The Prospects for Disruptive Innovation, examines how Nova Scotia, [...]
In a Canadian Press story about university costs, AIMS researcher Jackson Doughart says that while eliminating tuition is a bad idea, targeting subsidies to students from low-income families makes sense. HALIFAX — New Brunswick’s recent decision to follow Ontario’s lead by covering tuition for college and university students from lower income families has prompted a [...]
AIMS education analyst Paul Bennett is featured in this story from CBC News: The National. Please click here to see the video.
AIMS education author Paul Bennett is quoted in a CBC story about teacher misconduct. The Marketplace report reveals that the disciplinary process is inefficient and often hidden from the public. Read the full story on the CBC Marketplace website. Marketplace analyzed the [Ontario College of Teachers]'s cases [of alleged teacher misconduct] from the past [...]