Report Card on Alberta's High Schools : 2001 Edition
About the authors
Peter Cowley is the Director of School Performance Studies at The Fraser Institute. Upon graduation from the University of British Columbia (B.Comm. 1974), Mr Cowley accepted a marketing post with Proctor and Gamble in Toronto. He later returned to Vancouver to begin a long career in marketing and general management in the furniture-manufacturing sector. During his assignments in general management, process improvement was a special focus and interest. In 1994, Mr Cowley wrote and published The Parent's Guide, a popular handbook for parents of British Columbia's secondary-school students. It was replaced by www.parentsguide.com in 1995. In 1998, Mr Cowley was co-author of The Fraser Institute's A Secondary Schools Report Card for British Columbia. This was followed in 1999 by The 1999 Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools, Boys, Girls, and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British Columbia's Secondary Schools, and The 1999 Report Card on Alberta's High Schools; in 2000, by new editions of the Report Cards for Alberta and British Columbia and of the first edition of the Bulletin des écoles secondaires du Québec: Édition 2000 / Report Card on Quebec's Secondary Schools; in 2001, by the fourth edition of the Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools and the Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools.
Shahrokh Shahabi-Azad is a research analyst in School Performance Studies at The Fraser Institute. He holds a B.A. (1997) and an M.A. (2000) in Economics from Simon Fraser University, where he did extensive research on the Asian economies and the Asian financial crisis of 1997. His findings have been documented in his thesis, Perspectives on the Asian Crisis. Prior to joining The Fraser Institute, Mr. Shahabi-Azad worked at the Vancouver Center of Excellence: Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM) as a research economist and his paper, Immigrant Expenditure Patterns on Transportation, was published as part of the 2001 RIIM working paper series. He also contributed to the Report Card on Ontario's Secondary Schools.
Acknowledgments
The Fraser Institute wishes to acknowledge the generous support for this project from the Max Bell Foundation. Thanks also to the employees of Alberta Learning for their help in the acquisition and verification of the data upon which this Report Card is based. Once again this year, we also wish to thank all of those who took the time to share with us their comments and criticisms. Without the contributions of these interested individuals, improvement would come much slower. We hope that the Report Card on Alberta's High Schools: 2001 Edition will elicit more ideas.
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