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The emphasis on child-centred learning in earlier grades is preventing Ontario students from mastering the fundamentals at school, a problem highlighted by their worsening performance in math in the latest province-wide EQAO test results, says Doretta Wilson, executive director of the Society for Quality Education.
The latest Fraser Institute rankings show private schools on top with the highest scores while 40 public and separate high schools across Alberta raise concerns with below-average academic results and no improvement over the past five years.
EQAO data, such as on how much reading students do for pleasure, can reveal if your child’s school is interested in promoting more than high test scores, writes York University professor Sharon Murphy.
Despite an all-out effort on the part of the Ontario government to increase test scores – gobs of money, secretariats and turnaround teams, full-day kindergarten, and so forth – the Fraser Institute’s recently released 2011 report card shows students are not learning much more, if at all, writes Malkin Dare, president of the Society for Quality Education.
Ontario elementary students overall have scored slightly higher in standardized tests over the past five years, with girls performing better than boys in reading and math for most schools, but there is still room for improvement in cases where children are not meeting provincial standards, according to the Fraser Institute’s 2011 annual report card.
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