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Foundation. In addition to serving as Director of the Report Card Project on Washington's Schools, she researches and writes on public policy issues relating to education, elections, and American History. Ms. Cieslak graduated with academic honors from Hillsdale College with a B.A. in History and a minor in French as well as secondary teaching credentials in both subjects. While at Hillsdale, she served on the Board of Academic Honesty, coordinated a community child literacy program, and conducted research on the issue of adult literacy. Her interest in public education was piqued during her semester of student teaching in a lowincome high school in rural Michigan. She received French language training at L'Institute de Touraine in France's Loire Valley and studied British History at Oxford University. Following graduation, Ms. Cieslak taught middle school humanities, among other subjects, at a classical school in Seattle where she developed two primary text-based, interdisciplinary humanities curricula.

B.Comm. from the University of British Columbia (1974). In 1994, Mr Cowley independently wrote and published The Parent's Guide, a popular handbook for parents of British Columbia's secondary-school students. The Parent's Guide web site replaced the handbook in 1995. In 1998, Mr Cowley was co-author of the Fraser Institute's A Secondary Schools Report Card for British Columbia, the first of the Institute's continuing series of annual reports on school performance. This was followed in by The 1999 Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools, Boys, Girls, and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British Columbia's Secondary Schools, and The 1999 Report Card on Alberta's High Schools. Since then, Mr Cowley has co-authored all of the Institute's annual Report Cards. Annual editions now include Report Cards on elementary and secondary schools in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario and on secondary schools in Quebec.

1970 and an A.M. in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Chicago. He published extensively; his publications included Rating Global Economic Freedom (with M.A. Walker, Fraser Institute 1992); Education in Canada: An Analysis of Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Schooling (Fraser Institute 1988); Legal Aid Efficiency: Cost and Competitiveness (with P.J. Brantingham and P.L. Brantingham, Queen's University 1994). He was also co-author of the School Report Card Series.Professor Easton was an associate editor for Economic Inquiry from 1980 to 1984, on the board of editors for the Canadian Journal of Economics from 1984 to 1987, organizer for the Canadian Economics Association's Canada-France Roundtable in 1988 and representative for the Canadian Economics Association to the Social Science Federation of Canada Aid to Scholarly Publications from 1991 to 1994. He was a senior research fellow of The Fraser Institute.