Based on research, there’s no reason to assume that grade retention is always harmful.
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One of the province's leading math educators sees math as an opportunity to push his political views on students.
Students are now subjected to lessons about the perils of white privilege, systemic racism and heterosexism.
Instead of learning the standard algorithms for mathematics, students were expected to invent their own.
Half of all provinces, including Ontario, still refuse to allow money to follow the student.
The Toronto school board wants to lift the “veil of objectivity” from mathematics.
The school board is telling Toronto teachers to “incorporate issues of social justice in mathematics learning.”
In science, Alberta outscored highly-ranked countries including Estonia and Finland.
During the pandemic, most provinces suspended their testing programs.
Provincewide assessments allow the public to see how students are doing in school.