An Update on School Choice in Canada

Autor/in	Holmes, Mark
Titel	An Update on School Choice in Canada
Quelle	In: Journal of School Choice, 2 (2008) 2, S.199-205 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1558-2159
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Foreign Countries; Educational Administration; Educational Assessment; Educational Change; Educational Indicators; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Trend Analysis; Change Strategies; Educational Strategies; Social Influences; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Ausland; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungsreform; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Trendanalyse; Lösungsstrategie; Lehrstrategie; Sozialer Einfluss; Kanada
Abstract	This article gives an update on school choice in Canada. Currently, school choice in Canada is stable. Provincialism, in both senses of the word, is a major factor in Canadian political life. There is no contradiction between Ontario's recent electoral rejection of the extension of funding to non-Catholic religious schools, and the strong support for extensive school choice in urban Alberta. The liberal and politically correct political culture of urban Ontario differs from the more individualized and market-driven culture represented by Edmonton and Calgary. Quebec is both more autonomous than any American state, and more culturally distinct, even as its desire for legal separation (with its attendant loss of Alberta's equalization subsidy) dissipates. The movement to Catholic public schools and to independent schools (in three provinces) appears to have reached a plateau. The apparent academic and cultural advantage of Catholic schools may be offset by Canada's rapid secularization. There are financial limits (in families) to the growth of independent schools, accentuated by the growth of single-parent households. Equally important, parental desire for better education for their children, as distinct from higher grades, may be reduced in the majority of provinces, including Ontario, where there is no external testing for university admission, which is therefore determined by arbitrary school assessments. (Contains 14 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10