Instead, our fundamental problem is our over-ambitious, all-or-nothing approach.
Three successive Alberta governments having tried to rewrite the entire curriculum all at once.
Ed Stelmach and Alison Redford’s Progressive Conservatives and Rachel Notley’s New Democrats both tried and both failed. Now Jason Kenney’s United Conservatives appear to be on the same path.
This approach is doomed to failure. If there’s any major controversy around any one part of a new proposed curriculum, it ends up stalling, then derailing desperately needed fixes in other areas, such as in computer science.
For two decades leading Alberta computer scientists have pushed hard for better computer science education in our schools, especially in the earliest grades.