Quebecers’ Have something to learn from bookish Ontario

Quebecers’ Have something to learn from bookish Ontario

Two things are discouraging about young Quebecers’ reading skills.

The first is the nationwide-reading test whose results came out this week: Quebec’s eighth-graders scored “significantly lower” than Canadian students as a whole. (Quebec’s English public schools ranked fifth among the provinces. Their counterparts in French schools fared far more poorly than in the previous test in 2007.)

The other thing that’s discouraging is that no solution for this problem exists in Quebec.