Paul W. Bennett

Paul W. Bennett, Ed.D., is research director at the Schoolhouse Institute, Halifax, NS., and national coordinator of researchED Canada. His next book, The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools, will appear in September 2020.

Articles by this author

Are noisy Canadian classrooms hindering students?

Students fidgeting, sneaking a peek at smartphones, chatting with one another and disrupting others — this all contributes to making today’s classrooms unsettling places. Yet excessive classroom noise and disruptions remain largely undiagnosed and understudied …

The educational experience has been substandard for students during COVID-19

“Everyone is doing their best” was the prevailing narrative during the COVID-19 disruption affecting five million kindergarten to Grade12 students and their families. Coming out of a three-month suspension of in-person, face-to-face teaching and learning, …

What can be learned from Quebec’s math prowess?

Ontario’s recently elected Progressive Conservative government has vowed to abandon what is termed “discovery math” and to get “back to basics.” That populist election cry resonated with Ontarians because Ontario students continue to lag in …