Paul W. Bennett, Ed.D., is director, Schoolhouse Institute, and adjunct professor of education, Saint Mary’s University. His latest book is
in the entire country. Teachers and staff used the data to set goals, plan interventions and bring precision to teaching until its demise.
Student assessments were an issue in the April 2019 election and shortly after the King PCs were elected, the Provincial Assessment Program was phased out and the provincial unit dismantled. No provincial review of the cancelled program was ever released and the assessment-focused PD for teachers simply disappeared. Teacher unions are never big fans of student testing and the appointment of a former PEITF president as deputy education minister may have sealed its fate.
P.E.I. student test results are now either released for selected cohorts of students or delayed in their release. In July of 2021, a limited Program Evaluation for Grade 3 reading was released, aimed at allaying public fears of pandemic learning loss. . On the 2019 PCAP test, Grade 3 reading results were low and the preliminary data for 2021 looked similar. Results of other program evaluation tests for mathematics were supposed to be forthcoming in the fall of 2022 but failed to appear.
In the absence of effective elected trustees and without a robust parent advocacy group, the P.E.I. Home and School Association may step into the breech. Two proposed, on “Streamlining school board elections” and “Reading literacy,” provide fine fodder for needed educational reforms.
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