Alberta teachers’ strike reveals need for education revolution

“I think it’s a failure of imagination,” agrees Hamilton-based K-12 education expert Joanna DeJong VanHof. “The overcrowding and the complexity within public education classrooms is very real, and it’s very challenging,” she acknowledges. But, she adds, it’s a failure of imagination not to see how we can do education better, deploying Alberta’s charter and private schools as part of the solution to those challenges.