OP-ED: Why Alberta education keeps beating the national trend
"Strong student performance in Alberta reflects deliberate policy decisions that other provinces have been reluctant to make."
Author: Lee Harding
If Alberta were a country, its students would rank among the world’s top performers. That success is no accident. It flows from a system that values educational choice over ideological conformity.
For the past 20 years, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has shown Canadian students slipping in science, math and literacy. (PISA is an international test run every three years by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and measures the performance of 15-year-olds.)
