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CANADIANS ARE MORE EDUCATED BUT WARNING SIGNS APPEAR, FINDS NEW CANADIAN INDEX OF WELLBEING REPORT (OCT 26)

Canadians are more educated but warning signs appear

Toronto, Oct 26 - Canadians are more educated than ever before, but there are warning signs that performance is declining according to the new CIW Education Report released on October 26, 2010.

The report finds that the percentage of spaces for early childcare has increased, as have high school completion rates and university participation and completion rates.

There is also good news as the student-educator ratio in public school has been improving – except in British Columbia.

But developmental health in kindergarten has plateaued after a period of steady growth, social and emotional competencies in pupils age 12-13 are declining, and while Canadian basic education scores in Grades 8 and 9 are still above the international average, the margin is dropping.

Download the report_highlights or the full_report here.

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