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Posted on 04/08/2014 11:34:59 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
While the U. S. rushes to completely nationalize education, allegedly to improve test scores, America’s nearest northern neighbor, Canada, is taking a different approach. “I don’t know why Americans don’t adopt the Canadian approach to education,” Jason Clemens of the Canadian Fraser Institute said last weekend at a seminar in Chicago.
In Canada, there is “no federal role in education,” Clemens said at the Friday conference sponsored by the free-market Atlas Network and the Illinois Policy Institute. Both spending and governance of education in Canada are “entirely provincial,” Clemens said.
While, over the past two decades, Canada’s national government achieved this fundamental transformation, test scores went up. “Canada spends less than the United States on education but beats the US and the OECD averages on PISA results,” Clemens notes.
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Kudos to Canada for stopping the nationalization of their education system but it’s also a reminder of how far we’ve slipped as a nation when our neighbors to the north are succeeding with conservative principles and we’re casting them aside.
reminiscent of the days under Bush 41 when newly liberated nations of Eastern Europe were privatizing and 41 was regulating the hell out of us.
One of my daughters just returned from living in Canada with their three kids.
She absolutely hated the educational system there. They tried both private and public schools.
They were mighty happy to be transferred back to Houston recently—they are living in Katy, which is touted as having excellent public schools.
well compared to Texas, we’re all regressing;>)
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