As Albertans spar over education funding, province aces international assessment of math, reading and science skills

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Students in Alberta, on average, posted higher test scores than their counterparts across the country in reading, math and science, according to the results of a global assessment released last week

. And when compared with students in other countries, Alberta teens ranked among the best in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment .

“We use PISA to justify all sorts of things. You can use it to justify: ‘Look, we’re doing great. Let us be,'" said Prof. Marynowski, who was part of the previous government’s curriculum review effort. “We can use it to say: ‘But we’re not increasing [our rankings] so we need to make things better.’"

“I do find it very fascinating that we’re looking at pulling apart the system these days,” he said, pointing to proposals such as implementing a voucher system or tying classroom funding to performance targets rather than enrollment numbers.

 

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Those results is anything would be a reflection of NDP performance in education.

Yes indeed, we need to celebrate that! But alas our minister of education believes that they are radicalized, and that needs to change.

The answer to everything is the free market. Let businesses buy children and train them from birth.

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