Mending Canada’s Employment Insurance Quilt: The Case for Restoring Equity
The federal Employment Insurance (EI) program plays favorites among Canada’s regions and sustains costly, long-lasting pockets of high unemployment, say the authors of a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Mending Canada’s Employment Insurance Quilt: The Case for Restoring Equity,” Senior Policy Analyst Colin Busby and Professor David Gray say the EI program […] L’éducation des Autochtones au Québec : Un exercice d’analyse comparative
La pauvreté de la population autochtone québécoise est extrême, et le profond fossé qui sépare le niveau d’éducation des Autochtones de celui des non Autochtones en est la cause principale, selon les conclusions d’un rapport de l’Institut C.D. Howe. Dans son ouvrage intitulé L’éducation des Autochtones au Québec : Un exercice d’analyse comparative, John Richards, […]Aboriginal Education in Quebec: A Benchmarking Exercise
Quebec’s Aboriginal poverty is severe, and the large gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal education levels is the most important factor in explaining it, concludes a report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In Aboriginal Education in Quebec: A Benchmarking Exercise, John Richards, a professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, examines the relationship between education levels and […]Our High School Dropout Rate is Falling, But We Can Still Do Better: National Post Op-Ed
Published in the National Post on National Post on Jan 17, 2011
By John Richards
Dropping out of high school foretells a life marred by lengthy bouts of unemployment and poverty. For Canadians without a high-school certificate, the average employment rate is under 40%; for those with high school, the rate jumps by roughly 25% points.
So, how is Canada doing in terms of lowering dropout rates? Three major reports on Canada’s K-12 school performance released in late 2010 give us an idea of the strength of our education system.
First, according to the OECD’s latest education-indicators report, only 8% of Canadian adults aged 25-34 lack a high-school certificate — compared with the OECD average of 20%.
…School Dropouts: Who Are They and What Can Be Done?
The Payoff: Returns to University, College and Trades Education in Canada, 1980 to 2005
How to Assess a School’s Performance: Vancouver Sun Op-Ed
Published in the Vancouver Sun on June 11, 2010
By David Johnson
There are about 1,400 elementary schools in British Columbia, with about 600 of them in Metro Vancouver. How do parents, teachers, taxpayers and school administrators know if children are attending a school that does well by its students, that is, where the best schools are?
In a study published by the C.D. Howe Institute this week, I have created a measure of school performance that fairly compares schools where students come from similar social and economic backgrounds.
There is a big range in school performance, and some schools are better than others, but they cannot be meaningfully ranked by simply using the percentage of students who do…