All seven Calgary trustees fired.(Calgary, Alberta, Board of Education) Alberta Report (9/6/1999)
Alberta's education minister...within the system--provincial tests written in Grades...home during the achievement tests so his presence...marks." Reforming Alberta's monopolistic...Oberg acted. The Alberta ...

Pawlenty may follow in Edmonton's footsteps; Governor is thinking about a push in 2005 to experiment here.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (12/11/2004)
...improved student achievement. "I have to...teach a standard Alberta provincial curriculum, for...week trumpeted Alberta's high ranking in international test rankings, Edmonton kids' scores on Alberta ...

Home is where the smarts are: A think tank researcher finds home-schooled kids perform better socially too. (Schools). Alberta Report (12/3/2001)
...to standardized tests; by Grade 8 they...students do not write provincial achievement tests or diploma...oversees 2,050 Alberta students, acknowledges...students write the Alberta diploma exams...on the specific ...

Home is where the smarts are; A think tank researcher finds home-schooled kids perform better socially too. The Report Newsmagazine (12/3/2001)
...to standardized tests; by Grade 8 they...students do not write provincial achievement tests or diploma...oversees 2,050 Alberta students, acknowledges...students write the Alberta diploma exams...on the specific ...

Clever red-necks; Alberta.(Alberta's successful educational system) The Economist (US) (9/23/2006)
...improved, clear achievement goals have been...all paying off. Alberta's students regularly...national tests, Alberta's 13- and 16...in international tests they rank alongside...the same appeal in Alberta, where some ...

Bogus Points.(Canada's national testing program) Phi Delta Kappan (5/1/1999)
...introduced the School Achievement Indicators Program...Until the 1990s, provincial jurisdiction over...and demanded more tests and higher stakes...offered to design the test. It seems that...reading and writing tests conducted in ...

School dropouts: a Canadian--not just Quebec--scandal.(EDUCATION) Inroads: A Journal of Opinion (6/22/2009)
...state of educational achievement among Canadians...Newfoundland and Alberta. Sceptics point...scores of Canada's provincial school systems relative...Finland (1), Alberta (2), Hong Kong...the bottom tail of test score distributions...include ...

Case studies of gifted kindergarten children Part II: the parents and teachers. Roeper Review (1/1/2007)
...relating to intellectual, achievement, social, affective...learning and later achievements in education. The...school boards throughout Alberta, preschool and early...gifted councils of the Alberta Teachers' Association...gifted, and chartered ...

Case studies of gifted kindergarten children: profiles of promise.(On Gifted Students in School) Roeper Review (6/22/2004)
...toward learning and later achievements in education. The purpose...school boards throughout Alberta, preschool and early...gifted councils of the Alberta Teachers' Association...gifted, and chartered provincial psychologists known...Word Picture Vocabulary ...