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CHILDCARE RESOURCE AND RESEARCH UNIT
About the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
The Childcare Resource and Research Unit is an early childhood education and child care (ECEC) policy research institute with a mandate to further ECEC policy and programs in Canada.
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Preschool education and its lasting effects: Research and policy implications
15 May 2013 |
United States
Article by Steven Barnett (NIEER) summarizes research regarding the short-and
long-term effects of preschool education, with particular attention given to what is known about influences on program effectiveness.
Call for contributions: Special issue on professionalism in the Canadian early childhood education and care sector, for Canadian Children, 2014 online edition
15 May 2013 |
Canada
The aim of the special issue is to open up a lively dialogue about the ECEC profession in Canada that broadens and deepens our understandings of professionalism. Early childhood educators, researchers, curriculum developers and policy makers are invited to submit an abstract for this issue of Canadian Children to Rachel Langford by September 30, 2013
New website: Forest School Canada
15 May 2013 |
Canada
Forest School Canada is a national education initiative with a mission to "foster rich learning experiences, ecological literacy, and healthy living by connecting children to nature through the use of the Forest School model in the early, primary, and secondary years".
Accord on early learning and early childhood education: Association of Canadian Deans of Education
14 May 2013 |
Canada
The Accord on Early Learning, as one of ACDE's family of Accords, represents a commitment among members to advancing a set of shared goals and principles pertaining to this topic.
Quality early childhood services for all: Addressing disparities in access for children from migrant and low-income families
14 May 2013 |
International
Report from the first meeting of the Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years that brings together "leading scientists, practitioners, civil society members, business leaders and political decision-makers from Europe and North America...[to]explore policies and projects supporting the early childhood development of children from migrant and low-income families".
Child care in the news
- Provincial government allocates five hundred new child care spaces across Saskatchewan 17 May 2013 | Saskatchewan
- What universal child care does for Norway 16 May 2013 | Canada
- About 5,000 hit the street against daycare cuts 15 May 2013 | Quebec
- Parents worried by daycare's closing: City adapts to provincially mandated full-day kindergarten 15 May 2013 | Ontario
- NWLC and children deliver 30,000 letters and art work to White House, thanking President Obama for his Preschool for All Initiative 15 May 2013 | United States
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