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The 2021-22 budget includes funding for 15 hours per week of free preschool education for all children in the year before school. This is great, but we need more detail.
As provinces and territories beyond Québec develop early learning and care plans, they should be aware of the pitfalls of taking shortcuts in response to parent demand.
Many kindergarten classrooms draw on six principles for helping children to manage the everyday stressors of life, and parents can too.
Particularly after the devastation of COVID-19, evidence is mounting for the economic argument of reinvesting in high-quality early childhood education.
Researchers mapped the variation in preschool policies, and how they impact on what families pay, across all states and territories. Some places charge much higher fees than others.
Three education experts explain why students aren’t learning the basics.
Kindergarten enrollment dropped 16% this year, according to an NPR survey of 60 school districts across 20 states.
On top of teaching them how to recognize numbers and count to 10, make sure they’re playing with puzzles.
Kindergarten educators are like detectives who investigate alongside their students and who use students’ creations to gain insight into their development and interests.
Student assessments help children develop self-regulation skills, but teachers don’t have the time when class sizes are large.
The very short list of winners, and a growing list of losers, in Doug Ford’s Ontario does not bode well for the government’s political future – or the province.
Awe-filled learning unfolds as a kindergarten class, accompanied by educators, investigates snow and water with tools, toboggans and more.
Through games and household tasks, parents can help their children learn basic math skills like counting, geometry and algebraic thinking.
There are a number of questions parents should be asking to determine what age is best to send their child to school.
Schools across Canada should ‘grow down’ and offer two years of full-day preschool, according to a new report. This would allow mothers to work, improve child outcomes and reduce income inequality.
Parents can teach very young children to “skip count” at the kitchen table, and it will set them up to be successful math learners throughout their secondary and post-secondary education.
Ontario’s investment in a unique two-year, full-day and play-based kindergarten program is paying off. Could similar results happen elsewhere?
The new British Columbia government wants the province to shed its status as a laggard on education funding and poverty reduction. If it succeeds, B.C. will be a safer place to live.
Even kids who have attended daycare can find the first days of kindergarten stressful. The good news is that parents can take practical steps this summer, to prepare for the fall transition.
Top contributors
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Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
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Professor, Special Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Kerry McCuaig is a Friend of The Conversation.
Fellow in Early Childhood Policy, Atkinson Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Post-doctoral fellow, Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Education, University of California, Irvine
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and Psychology and 21st Century Chair, University of Arkansas
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Professor of Education, University of Iowa
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Faculty Associate in Elementary Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Administrator, Acceleration Institute and Research, University of Iowa
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Medical Branch
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Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Michigan State University
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in Early Childhood Education, The University of Texas at Austin
