Like many of us, I can get pretty focussed on my own classroom in my own board in my own province. I thought it was time I had a look at another province's English curriculum. This report gives some information, comparisons, and opinions about how the English curriculum in Ontario and in Nova Scotia is designed, and how it is affected by streaming policies and large-scale testing policies. It was eye-opening for me to be reminded that there is another world outside my own province. In the end I found that I prefer our own curriculum document. But after talking to people in both the Nova Scotia Department of Education and in the Nova Scotia teachers' union, I think, as a teacher who taught through the Harris years in Ontario and is still teaching under the shadow left by those years, I prefer Nova Scotia politics.
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