It's worth keeping in mind that Canada has on of the world's best education system, delivering consistently strong performances in measurement after measurement. This is the context in which we should be viewing proposals in Alberta to reform the system. In this post, Grant Frost looks at the recently released MacKinnon Report which recommends "linking some portion of funding to school boards achieving strategic outcomes desired by the ministry." This, writes Frost, is one more example of the 'Value Added Model' advanced as wider efforts to promote privatized education. Interestingly, he ties this movement - and MacKinnon's proposals - to a group called The Atlas Network, which he says "now boasts a partnership of over 500 think tanks world wide, all created for the sole purpose of spreading the neo-liberal gospel." He's not wrong.
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