CARDUS

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Education
Research Report

Educational Pluralism in International Context

A Look at Seventeen Countries

Joanna DeJong VanHof

October 30, 2025

Education
Research Report

The Three Pillars of Educational Pluralism

Availability, Access, and Accountability

Joanna DeJong VanHof

July 17, 2025

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Education
Policy Memo

Memo: Submission to the UN-OHCHR Working Group in Support of Educational Pluralism

Cardus's response to the UN-OHCHR consultation contests the preference for state-delivered public education. We argue that diverse models of delivery facilitate educational pluralism and contribute to the common good of societies.

Joanna DeJong VanHof Andreae Sennyah

May 16, 2025

Education
Research Report

Diverse Outcomes for a Diverse Population

Findings About Homeschooled Adults from the Cardus Education Survey

Albert Cheng Angela R. Watson

February 3, 2025

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General
Policy Memo

Memo: Alberta’s Budget 2025 Consultation

Our recommendations address the following areas: supporting more families with child care costs, expanding support for independent education, reviewing post-secondary education funding to better serve working-class Albertans, redirecting gambling revenues to addiction relief programs, limiting the expansion of online gambling, increasing investments in palliative care for adults and children, and promoting employment for people with criminal records.

Andreae Sennyah

January 11, 2025

Education
Research Report

School-Sector Influence on Graduate Outcomes and Flourishing

Findings from the 2023 Cardus Education Survey

Lynn E. Swaner Albert Cheng Jonathan Eckert

December 4, 2024

Education
Research Report

Can We Call Them Credit Mills?

Assessing the Legitimacy of Some Independent Schools in Ontario

Joanna DeJong VanHof

June 24, 2024

Education
Research Report

Retooling Teacher Certification

Bridging the Vocational-Technical Teacher Gap in Alberta

David Hunt Brett Fawcett

June 13, 2024

Education
Perspectives Paper

The Progressive Case for Educational Pluralism

No, right-of-centre policymakers don't own the school choice movement. Progressives have been supporting educational pluralism at least since the 1960s.

Ashley Berner

May 14, 2024