Friday April 4th 2008

CHIGNECTO-CENTRAL REGIONAL SCHOOL BOARD TAKES ISSUE WITH AIMS REPORT

The Superintendent of Schools for the Chignecto Central region is speaking out about comments by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.
Dr. Noel Hurley says AIMS is "bullying" schools with its use of improperly tabulated educational results, in order to attract media attention.

AIMS Executive Director Charles Cirtwell singled out the Chignecto Central Regional School Board as the only one in the province not to supply it with separate provincial exam and teacher-assigned grade data for its high schools.

But Hurley says the Institute’s methodology is flawed, and Chignecto Central students’ results spoke for themselves when he presented them at a conference last week in New York.

The AIMS sixth-annual Report Card on Atlantic Canadian High Schools pointed out that some schools were eager to release data, while others remain opposed.