Juno News - Canadian test scores continue to get WORSE

As spending on public education in Canada has gone up, performance in our public schools has actually gone down. Why is this happening, and what can we do to reverse it? In this episode, I discuss the problem with Canada's public education system and suggest a solution.

00:00:00.000 As spending on public education in Canada has gone up, performance in our public schools has

00:00:05.120 actually gone down. So PISA, which stands for Program for International Student Assessment,

00:00:11.700 is a international test coordinated every few years by the OECD, and it's basically the gold

00:00:17.840 standard for international educational performance. So this test means business. Now, right off the

00:00:22.820 bat, it's important to acknowledge typically Canadian students have performed pretty well on

00:00:27.480 PISA. So they have ranked quite highly in comparison to other OECD countries. And oftentimes leftists

00:00:34.300 will use this to say, look, we need to defend the status quo. We need to continue to spend more and

00:00:39.740 more and more, dump more money into the same system because look, we rank highly internationally.

00:00:45.720 But a clear and obvious rebuttal to this is that Canada has been slipping ever since they started

00:00:51.780 benchmarking our scores in reading science and math. Canadian student scores have been on the

00:00:57.220 decline. Consider this. Canadian scores in all three subjects of reading, math, and science have

00:01:03.000 declined from the respective benchmarking year to 2018. Reading has declined from 534 points to 520,

00:01:11.120 mathematics from 532 points to 512, and science from 534 points to 518. So right away, that should

00:01:21.680 disprove the leftist claim that increasing education funding improves student outcomes. Because as we've

00:01:27.460 seen, over this same period, education funding has increased, but our PISA scores have declined.

00:01:34.160 Vincent Geloso, an economics professor and senior economist at the Montreal Economic Institute,

00:01:39.380 points out in a recent article, Quebec data show that performance on PISA tests for mathematics

00:01:44.460 has been quite stable, declining only 1.5% since 2006, even though spending per pupil has increased

00:01:51.980 18%. So Canada's been spending more and getting worse results. Why? Here's the problem with Canada's

00:01:58.360 education system. Results have been going down despite increases in funding because Canada's

00:02:03.220 public education system is a government-backed monopoly. Canadians know that monopolies create

00:02:08.380 less choice, poorer service, and higher prices. So why do we tolerate the government's monopoly over

00:02:13.460 public education? In Ontario and Atlantic provinces, if you want your tax dollars to follow your son or

00:02:19.760 daughter wherever they're going to school, you have to send them to a government school. You have 0.90

00:02:24.080 no choice. However, in other provinces, 35 to 80% of per pupil funding can follow students outside the

00:02:31.260 government system. And this leads us to the solution. Canada's public education system needs

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Juno News - September 02, 2022

Canadian test scores continue to get WORSE

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