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Early daycare tied to school-age health
Source: cbc.ca, December 6, 2010
Excerpt: “Children who start attending large child-care centres before age 2½ seem to develop more respiratory and ear infections at that age, but fewer of the illnesses when they reach elementary school, a Canadian study finds.”
$227,100 grant is an investment in Toronto children and their families (news release)
Source: Middle Childhood Matters Coalition
Excerpt: “Middle Childhood Matters Coalition (MCMC) Toronto announced it is launching a new phase in providing opportunities for parents and community agency staff to increase their knowledge of middle childhood growth and development. Thanks to a three-year, $227,100 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation MCMC Toronto will be able to further increase awareness of the value of out-of school programmes. The funds will be used to provide information, resources and skill development sessions for parents and community program staff. Key to the success of this initiative will be the bringing together of parents from across the City of Toronto to influence the work of the Coalition."
The Kindergarten Diaries
Source: Globe and Mail, December 6, 2010
Excerpt: “Throughout the school year, The Globe and Mail is following Millie and three other students through kindergarten, chronicling the year in pictures, drawings, and in their own words, as well as tracking their development….Experts in early-childhood learning, including Janette Pelletier, an associate professor at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, have developed creative techniques for assessing young learners. Working with an OISE graduate student, Kadria Simons, The Globe has begun employing some of these techniques...”
Full-day kindergarten popularity outstrips plans to pay for it
Source: Globe and Mail, December 6, 2010
Excerpt: “For nearly 12 years, Julie Solet has used a cheering method, pointing at large letters arranged on a board and shouting, “Give me an A,” to help her part-time students learn the alphabet. By January, the kids were usually confident enough to jump up, point out the letters and lead the cheers themselves. This year, her students were leading cheers in October.”
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Quebec daycare workers approve new deal
Source: Montreal Gazette, December 5, 2010
Excerpt: “In a ratification vote held Sunday, 95 per cent of the workers voted in favour of approving the new deal, which will gradually boost the income of government-subsidized home daycare operators to $34.43 a day per child by 2013. Prior to the agreement, home daycare providers received $26 a day per child - $19 from the Quebec government and another $7 from parents.”
Dr. Eric Jackman Donates $5M to U of T Institute of Child Study
Source: OISE, December 3, 2010
Excerpt: “The University of Toronto has announced that Dr. Eric Jackman has donated $5 million to the Institute of Child Study – a landmark gift in Canada for early development and childhood education. In recognition of the gift, U of T has renamed the 85-year-old Institute of Child Study (ICS) the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, which is part of the University’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology. The Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study is one of the few places in the world to integrate advanced research, renowned graduate teacher training and a demonstration model of practical elementary schooling at one place.”
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B.C. shamed on global stage for 'legislated poverty'
Source: The Province (BC), December 3, 2010
Excerpt: “Four million readers worldwide of the Economist are this week seeing an article that singles out B.C. as "one of the keenest slashers" of public spending…. "Children of recent immigrants, of aboriginal identity, in racialized families, in female lone-parent families and those with a disability are at a higher risk of being in poverty," the report says. One in four First Nations children are poor, it adds. The rich, however, continue to get richer.””
Call for Paper Proposals: Transitions in Early Childhood (pdf)
Source: Canadian Association for Research in Early Childhood
Excerpt: “With an inclusive understanding of transitions as a starting point, we propose a call to researchers and educators in the field of early childhood to explore the theme of “Transitions in Early Childhood.” Our aim is to examine the concept of transition from different orientations and perspectives, and to share the work we are doing in these areas.”
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Kindergarten cash crunch might send teachers off site
Source: Ottawa Sun, December 3, 2010
Excerpt: "Sending kindergarten teachers to off-site daycares could be the solution if the public school board isn’t given enough money from the province to renovate or build new schools to accommodate the third round of Ontario’s full-day kindergarten program."
Full day JK gets thumbs up
Source: Lindsay Post, November 30, 2010
Excerpt: ""When you visit a full-day kindergarten classroom, you will see children engaged in activities at a table with a teacher, or at a centre with other children or on their own. The centres will focus on learning skills -for example, one classroom had a centre with a water table in which several small pumpkins had been placed -students could investigate concepts such as floating, dispersion, weight, shape, colour and more.""
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Home daycare workers vote in favour of contract
Source: Montreal Gazette, November 29, 2010
Excerpt: "Home-based daycare workers affiliated with Quebec's largest labour federation voted 89 per cent yesterday in favour of their first collective agreement. The deal will gradually boost the income of government-subsidized home-daycare operators to $34.43 a day per child by 2013."
Child poverty capital: 68% of aboriginal kids poor, report card states
Source: Winnipeg Free Press, November 26, 2010
Excerpt: "Almost three-quarters of aboriginal children aged six and under live in poverty in Manitoba. The depressing figure affecting 68 per cent of aboriginal children six and under is one of the reasons Manitoba is ranked the child-poverty capital of Canada for the second year in a row."
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CUPE Committee Tackles Growth of For-Profit Child Care
Source: www.canadaviews.ca, November 25, 2010
Excerpt: ""We know that quality affordable child care helps ease poverty, enables parents to enter the workforce and gives our children the best start in life, “ said Randi Gurholt-Seary, co-chair of the committee. “The problem is, too many families don’t have access to child care. Waiting lists are long, fees are too high and there is no system to guarantee access quality care.""
Child Poverty up in Ontario
Source: Toronto Star, November 24, 2010
Excerpt: "After three years of decline, child poverty in Ontario is on the rise, says a national advocacy group in its annual report being released at Queen’s Park Wednesday…. It means 412,000 children and youth under age 18, or one in six, were living in poverty, says the report by Ontario Campaign 2000, the provincial arm of a national coalition of about 120 groups dedicated to ending child and family poverty in Canada."
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