Globe's Radwanski thinks McGuinty's "education record" key to re-election in 2011
What is it about so many Canadian professional journalists that they feel they have to continually promote Liberal governments, even when they are doing a bad job of governing? And, yes, the McGuinty-led Liberals have done a bad job of governing Ontario, particularly given the number of e-Health-like boondoggles, wind energy and other money sucking green initiatives, the HST and [...]
Prof. Lukacs exposes Univ. Manitoba "no-fail" policy at Ph.D level
Can you believe it? The University of Manitoba’s Mathematics Department has succumbed to the politically correct policy of promoting a student who was not ready to graduate. Only, this time we are talking about a student who has already had their Ph.D conferred — even though they did not pass one of their required comprehensive [...]
Carleton Univ. provides help to students who are "flunking out"
Unlike high school where teachers and parents can direct and influence what students do, the opposite is usually true of university. Total freedom! As a result, even though good marks are what get young people admitted to university in the first place, the characteristics and skills that are most needed to succeed are self-discipline, organizational [...]
Was Canada's high school drop-out rate halved by lowering standards?
Yesterday, the news came out that Statistics Canada had found that the high school drop-out in rate in Canada has been cut in half over the last twenty years. While print and television news reports were all overflowing with praise (e.g., see this Ottawa Citizen report by Mark Iype), my immediate reaction was “why.” Why did the drop [...]
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