Toronto Sun · Vancouver Sun · Toronto Star · Ottawa Citizen · The Globe and Mail · Calgary Herald
Michael Zwaagstra
Publishing · On our record since 2010
Where this writer stands
No opinion piece by this writer has been scored on a policy topic yet.
Only opinion columns and editorials are scored. Each piece is read twice by a language model, which records the author's own stance on a policy topic only where the piece argues one, with a quote that must appear in the piece. An author's position on a topic is the average of their pieces, weighted by the model's confidence. News reporting is listed but never scored.
Recent work
- OPINION: Enrolment rising in Ontario's independent schoolsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Oct 28, 2026
- ZWAAGSTRA: Teacher development should focus on student learning not political ideologyOpinion · Toronto Sun · Oct 20, 2026
- ZWAAGSTRA: New test scores expose Ford government’s failure to improve educationOpinion · Toronto Sun · Oct 9, 2026
- ZWAAGSTRA: Students should be learning comprehensive Canadian historyOpinion · Toronto Sun · Sep 29, 2026
- ZWAAGSTRA: Canadian students doing worse than 20 years agoOpinion · Toronto Sun · Sep 22, 2026
- ZWAAGSTRA: Ford government’s latest attempt at education centralization will cost more than you thinkOpinion · Toronto Sun · Sep 1, 2026
- ZWAAGSTRA: Police officers would make Toronto schools safer despite claims to contraryOpinion · Toronto Sun · Sep 5, 2025
- ZWAAGSTRA: More money won’t fix Ontario’s school violence problemOpinion · Toronto Sun · Aug 21, 2025
- The Ford government is taking over school boards. It should be dismantling them insteadOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 12, 2025
- Toronto school trustees should scrap the lottery system for specialty schools and provide more educational choicesOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 25, 2025
- ZWAAGSTRA: Ford government should reject Toronto school board’s DEI decreeOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jan 25, 2025
- MacPherson and Zwaagstra: Doug Ford's smartphone restrictions in schools don’t go far enoughOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · May 8, 2024
- Opinion: School boards missed a chance to make the eclipse a teachable momentOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Apr 11, 2024
- ZWAAGSTRA: Woke ideology destroying diversity of thought in schoolsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Aug 3, 2023
- ZWAAGSTRA: Ontario should privatize Catholic schools and increase choice for parentsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jun 14, 2023
- ZWAAGSTRA: Toronto admissions fiasco underscores need for school choiceOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jun 9, 2023
- Michael Zwaagstra: Plight of unique Vancouver school underscores need for choiceOpinion · Vancouver Sun · May 4, 2023
- Zwaagstra: Don’t scrap final exams. Some stress is good for studentsOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · Feb 9, 2023
- ZWAAGSTRA: Forcing students to wear masks again is a bad ideaOpinion · Toronto Sun · Nov 28, 2022
- ZWAAGSTRA: Schools should not abandon tests and examsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Oct 16, 2022
- ZWAAGSTRA: Time to end all mandates in schoolsOpinion · Toronto Sun · Aug 29, 2022
- ZWAAGSTRA: Universities’ draconian pandemic rules are ridiculousOpinion · Toronto Sun · Aug 28, 2022
- ZWAAGSTRA: It’s time to scrap the ArriveCAN appOpinion · Toronto Sun · Jul 20, 2022
- Opinion: Is the theory of ‘unique learning styles’ dragging down our education system?Opinion · The Globe and Mail · Jul 19, 2022
- Zwaagstra: Class-size caps might hurt — not help — Ontario schoolsOpinion · Ottawa Citizen · May 24, 2022
- Opinion: Alberta government should revitalize standardized testingOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Mar 27, 2022
- Opinion | The writing is on the wall for cursive, but it remains an important skill to learnOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 21, 2021
- Michael Zwaagstra: Reading comprehension depends on content knowledgeOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Mar 27, 2018
- Michael Zwaagstra: More Canadian history needed in schoolsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Feb 23, 2018
- Opinion: Teachers must expose students to more than one perspectiveOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jan 15, 2018
- More edu-babble than substance in new B.C. curriculumOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Nov 3, 2013
- Calgary HeraldOpinion · Calgary Herald · Jun 12, 2013
- Little gain from technology in schoolsOpinion · Vancouver Sun · Jun 3, 2013
- Why school boards should follow Edmonton's leadOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Aug 22, 2012
- Calgary HeraldOpinion · Calgary Herald · Oct 15, 2011
- Calgary HeraldOpinion · Calgary Herald · Jun 6, 2010
- Opinion: Why school boards should follow Edmonton's leadOpinion · The Globe and Mail · Apr 4, 2010