Well, at last some news!

Alberta education minister, Dave Hancock, announced the release of the steering committee's report. The report outlines the government's vision for Alberta students over the next twenty years.

An excerpt from the article in the Edmonton Journal reads in part, “Participants concluded that the education system needs more than minor change,” the report says. “Indeed, they advocated for an informed transformation of Alberta’s education system, one that challenges commonly held beliefs and leads to new structures and approaches.”

Read the Journal article here and the report here as a pdf file.
Unfortunately the pdf file is version 1.6 compressed for the web and not easily opened by older Acrobat readers or alternate readers. I hope the ministry rethinks that strategy and re-issues a more friendly version of the report.

The report is more of an outline of principles and there is much more to be done. However it is certainly a good start.

Happy learning...

Cheers - Mike