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| EST. READ TIME 1 MIN.Education in Canada: An Analysis of Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Schooling
In this study, Professor Easton points out that although Canadians spend tens of billions of dollars for education, there is little to ensure that good teaching is rewarded and bad teaching is penalized. Higher costs are built into the current public teacher salary bill as an aging work-force is paid almost exclusively on the basis of the teacher's education and experience. As a result, the educational consumer and tax-payer face rising per student costs with no corresponding assurance of rising educational quality.
The result of dissatisfaction with the public school system is to give additional impetus to the movement away from state-produced educational barriers. More flexible voucher and subsidy arrangements provide methods by which parents have greater choice in education, and offer the possibility that the cost to the taxpayer could also be reduced.
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Stephen T. Easton
Stephen T. Easton was a professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He received his A.B. from Oberlin College in1970 and an A.M. in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Chicago. He published extensively; his publications included Rating Global Economic Freedom (with M.A. Walker, Fraser Institute 1992); Education in Canada: An Analysis of Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Schooling (Fraser Institute 1988); Legal Aid Efficiency: Cost and Competitiveness (with P.J. Brantingham and P.L. Brantingham, Queen's University 1994). He was also co-author of the School Report Card Series.Professor Easton was an associate editor for Economic Inquiry from 1980 to 1984, on the board of editors for the Canadian Journal of Economics from 1984 to 1987, organizer for the Canadian Economics Association's Canada-France Roundtable in 1988 and representative for the Canadian Economics Association to the Social Science Federation of Canada Aid to Scholarly Publications from 1991 to 1994. He was a senior research fellow of The Fraser Institute.… Read more