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Canadian Students’ Test Results in Global Ranking Should Spell the End of ‘Discovery Learning’

Commentary The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published the results of the 2022 PISA test this week and the news for Canada is not good. PISA (Programme for ...

December 11, 2023BY David Livingstone

Alberta’s New Curriculum: Ditching the Regressive Theory of Discovery Learning

Commentary Alberta is hoping to pilot a new K-6 curriculum soon, and not surprisingly it has upset some ...

April 12, 2021BY David Livingstone

Back to Basics: A Math Professor’s Quest to Keep Long Division in Canadian Classrooms

When math professor Robert Craigen was asked to sit on a panel reviewing Manitoba’s “new math” curriculum 15 ...

September 21, 2020BY Justina Wheale

The Progressive Curriculum: Rhetoric Versus Reality

In 1953, historian and educator Hilda Neatby ignited controversy by publishing “So Little for the Mind: An Indictment ...

May 27, 2019BY David Livingstone