Do School Boards Add Value to Education? (by Tunya Audain, 091218, comment to blog Report Card by Janet Steffenhagen, Vancouver Sun education reporter on story : Drop two trustees and save money: Ann Andersen, 091217) That is the title of an article in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, May 10, 2000. … Read more
Author: Tunya Audain
Communitarian Way to Responsive Education: Nobel Winner
Responsive Schools Key to Good Society: Nobel Winner (by Tunya Audain, 091015, published in “The Report Card” blog of Vancouver Sun education reporter, Janet Steffenhagen on her story: “Online education threatens rural schools” 091017) It takes a political scientist to unravel the economics of citizens effectively and efficiently managing… Read more
Parent Rights Essential for Responsive Schools
Parent Rights a Top Priority for Education Responsiveness (Published by Tunya Audain In Education Advisory on January 13, 2009, Accountability, Parent Involvement in Schools and Parent Rights) How well parents exercise their rights determines what degree or quality of services they get in public schools. It is quite different… Read more
Public Education Does not Mean Government Schools
Continuing to add to Private/Public debate…This SECOND essay was published by our local newspaper education blog on the topic of meeting with the Minister of Education. The issue arose, again, limiting funds to private schools and giving them to public schools. BIG Difference between Public Education and Government… Read more
State Schooling vs Public Education
Private/public schools issues keep recurring. These debates are healthy but they can be divisive and unhelpful at times. It should be very instructive to explore these issues more thoroughly in the 21st Century as we consider different viewpoints through various lenses — history, economics, politics/ideologies, etc. I will be adding… Read more