Report Card on Washington's Middle Schools 2009

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.

joining the Fraser Institute, Michael Thomas served as a policy advisor in the Ontario Ministry of Education, where his files included adult education, students at risk of not meeting their graduation requirements, the new curriculum, student health initiatives, and the community use of schools. Michael is a former public school trustee, who served on the Toronto District School Board from 1997 to 2000. Michael has also held positions within the City of Toronto, and the Ontario Ministries of Tourism and Recreation, and Citizenship. He attended Centennial College and York University, graduating with a BA in Political Science.