The state of preschool 2016: State preschool yearbook
OVERVIEW
State of Preschool 2016 is the latest edition of our annual yearbook report profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States. NIEER’s State Preschool Yearbook is the only national report...
Towards a better future for women and work
Voices of women and men
SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS
The demand for teacher characteristics in the market for child care
Evidence from a field experiment
ABSTRACT
New Ontario daycare rules unnecessary, city councillor says
EXCERPTS
The chair of Ottawa's community services committee is pushing back against new rules from Queen's Park, warning that changes to daycare rules will cost families more money and cause the city to cut its own...
Why aren’t there more women in the labor force across the globe?
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Gallup and the International Labor Organization (ILO) recently released a landmark report on global attitudes toward women and work.
Based on a study conducted across 142 countries and territories, the report...
Nova Scotia NDP pledge $15-a-day child care beginning next year
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Nova Scotia New Democrats are promising to bring in $15-a-day child care beginning next year if they win the May 30 provincial election, a pledge the other parties quickly dismissed as likely beyond the...
New graduates take charge of early learning in Nunavut hamlet
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Pond Inlet families celebrated the graduation of six new early childhood educators this month, graduates of the Baffin community’s first-ever program of its kind.
Nunavut Arctic College launched the two-year...
Why 4-year colleges may want to rethink their early childhood programs
EXCERPTS
Over the course of about nine months, researchers sent nearly 11,000 resumes to apply for 2,772 childcare job openings. They were testing a number of hypotheses about how childcare providers make distinctions...
Campus child care made it possible for this young parent to graduate college. Now Trump wants to ax the program.
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Starting St. Louis Community College at Forest Park with an infant daughter and 2-year-old son posed some challenges for Ssire Ivy. While family and friends offered to help out from time to time, it was not a...
For recognition of all children’s right to quality educational services, from birth onward
Declaration from the Early Childhood Summit Montreal
Overview
In the wake of the Commission on Early Childhood Education and its report, which was unveiled on February 21, 2017 the...
