Measuring Economic Progress - GDP? or something else.

Article from the Guardian about how GDP is not the necessarily the best measure of how an economy is doing. The article suggests some other options though I am not sure if these would necessarily present a better picture of how the economy is doing. Notice that they do not refer to the HDI (Human Development Index) which was specifically developed to provide a better measure than GDP.

Ontario's New Assessment - important to consider given BC's new curriculum

Article from Educhatter a Canadian Education Blog about assessment in Ontario.Some background on the research about Assessment for Learning.

Factfulness

Tim Harford's review of Factfulness - Hans Roslings book. If you don't know who Hans is check out some of his TED talks and his Gapminder

website.

I would highly recommend Hans Rosling for his insightful view of the world, his use of statistics and his overall presentation. 

Latte Index

You may have heard about the Big Mac Index as a way of seeing if currency is over or under valued. Here is another one called the Latte Index.

Student Assessment and Data Mining

I am not sure if I agree with everything in this article but it raises some important questions especially with the SEL assessments that are happening.

Climate Change and Carbon Pricing

Here is the report Clearing the Air. It goes over how the carbon tax works.