Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary 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, he was co-author of 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. He continues his research on education and related issues for The Fraser Institute.
Stephen T. Easton is a professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University and an adjunct scholar at The Fraser Institute. He received his A.B. from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Recent works published by The Fraser Institute include Privatizing Prisons (editor, 1998), The Costs of Crime: Who Pays and How Much? 1998 Update (with Paul Brantingham, 1998), and Rating Global Economic Freedom (editor, 1992). He was also co-author of A Secondary Schools Report Card for British Columbia (1998), The 1999 Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools, Boys, Girls, and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British Columbia's Secondary Schools (1999), and The 1999 Report Card on Alberta's High Schools. Other recent publications about education include "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" in Stephen B. Lawton, Rodney Reed, and Fons van Wieringen, Restructuring Public Schooling (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997) and Education in Canada: An Analysis of Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Schooling (Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 1988). His editorials have been carried by the Vancouver Sun, the Globe and Mail, the Financial Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the Stirling chain and many other newspapers around the country.
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