"Those of us who were around during the economic crisis of the late sixteenth century in Europe find some features of the current educational crisis oddly familiar."

I love a great opening line. The sentence just above is what greets the reader who follows Harold's link to Egan's work. Attention grabbed, I'm on my way over the library to check out the book.

Regarding CEGEP... I have always instinctively admired the CEGEP system (in which students spend 3 years in a secondary system before going to cegep -- kind of a junior college-- in which they can stream to either academic or technical). It just seems to make sense... it seems to be the right age to stream towards either academic or technical. And developmentally, kids that age seem ready for something a bit more 'grown-up' than high school, before being tossed into the cold, deep waters of university, or choosing a trade.

But do we know how the graduates fare after their cegep years, compared to other systems. I assume the quebec government has done evaluations... has anyone seen any studies on this?