{"id":108306,"date":"2026-03-10T17:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=108306"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:36:29","slug":"opinion-andy-hargreaves-carol-campbell-and-louis-volante-discuss-eqao-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/03\/opinion-andy-hargreaves-carol-campbell-and-louis-volante-discuss-eqao-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Andy Hargreaves, Carol Campbell and Louis Volante discuss EQAO testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Hargreaves, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa; Carol Campbell, Professor at the University of Edinburgh; and Louis Volante, Distinguished Professor of Educational Studies at Brock University, wrote a piece recently published in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/we-were-involved-in-the-last-study-on-eqao-testing-but-the-ford-government-buried\/article_b7487cc8-7852-420c-bb82-8d10bfe41d46.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Toronto Star<\/a><\/em> about lessons learned from the last comprehensive review of Ontario&#8217;s EQAO testing system following the announcement of a new review by the provincial government.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, let\u2019s have a review \u2014 by all means. But let\u2019s make it inclusive, balanced and focused on children\u2019s needs and the public good, rather than on economic interests. Create a diverse advisory body. Involve the public, learners, and the education profession. Compare with similar systems, internationally. And follow educational evidence \u2014 not political or free market ideologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/contributors\/we-were-involved-in-the-last-study-on-eqao-testing-but-the-ford-government-buried\/article_b7487cc8-7852-420c-bb82-8d10bfe41d46.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Toronto Star<\/em>\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Hargreaves, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa; Carol Campbell, Professor at the University of Edinburgh; and Louis Volante, Distinguished Professor of Educational Studies at Brock University, wrote a piece recently published in the The Toronto Star about a new comprehensive review of Ontario&#8217;s EQAO testing system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,6],"tags":[6805,98,3028,3892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108311,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306\/revisions\/108311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}