Despite a huge investment in preschool funding, school readiness scores have remained flat for more than a decade.
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People, policies, practice and place all matter in publicly funded, school-based children’s early learning programs.
The pandemic has meant some parents have to just drop their young children at the gate and go, without seeing the classroom and talking to teachers.
Canada has much to learn from other countries about better ways of providing learning and care for children.
The core principle of education is to enable students to become kind, giving and contributing members of their community and the world.
The system has several elements and many problems. Making it fit for purpose will take a lot of work and even more resources than those that have just been announced.
This week’s announcements will add to the need to train more early childhood workers and to ensure they are more diverse in a way that better reflects our multicultural society.
Childcare centres are closing due to staff shortages, but this was a problem well before the pandemic.
A chasm has opened up between early childhood learning and the first years of compulsory schooling. Kids go from playing to being tested in the blink of an eye, and their learning is poorer for it.
When students are allowed to bring personal items for show and tell, it can build their senses of self-worth, belonging and control. But poor kids often don’t get that opportunity.
An early childhood development expert explains why so many preschoolers are kicked out of child care, and what to do if it happens to your child.
Early childhood education and care centres, which includes childcare and preschool, are part of our village. They form a support network established to ensure parents’ and children’s lifelong success.
The Biden administration wants workers in child care and pre-K programs to earn at least $15 per hour.
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.
An early childhood education expert explains what’s in the proposal and why it’s not really a partisan issue.
The federal government spends about US$2,500 a year on child care and early education per child under 5, about half of the European average.
Teacher referrals will replace standardized testing. That could disadvantage already-underrepresented students.
A researcher recreates a famous 1940s doll experiment to probe how Black preschool children view race and themselves – and finds not much has changed.
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.
One in five early childhood educators said they planned to leave their job within a year. It is vital we design a system and policies to ensure there are enough to meet the demand.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Education Policy, Victoria University
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Former Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Victoria University
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research and Development, Pivot Professional Learning; and Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Assistant Professor of Education Finance and Policy, University of Washington
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Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
