Reports


Driving Insights from the Early Childhood Education Lab

Driving Insights from the Early Childhood Education Lab
University of New Brunswick | February 2026 Excerpt: "A strong early learning and childcare system depends on a skilled and stable workforce. Across Canada, early learning centres continue to face persistent staffing shortages, high workloads, and limited time for professional learning. These pressures make it difficult to recruit and retain...

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Expanding Public Education to Include Four-Year-Old Children - Atlantic Region ECE Initiative

Expanding Public Education to Include Four-Year-Old Children - Atlantic Region ECE Initiative

Young children are waiting for early learning and child care in Atlantic Canada and across the rest of the country. This matters. As children wait, their early learning is stifled, their parents are unable to work, with the economy foregoing needed skills, now and in the future. Instead, we can...

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Giving Parents Money Doesn’t Solve Child Care Problems

Giving Parents Money Doesn’t Solve Child Care Problems

The Prosperity Project | September 5, 2024 The Prosperity Project’s new report, Giving Parents Money Does Not Solve Child Care Problems by Dr. Gordon Cleveland, argues why creating an early learning and child care system advantages families. and the country, more than vouchers for parents. The report makes a number...

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Early Childhood Education Report 2023

Early Childhood Education Report 2023

Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto | April 25, 2024 This is the 5th edition of the Early Childhood Education Report (ECER). Established in 2011, the report is released every three years to evaluate provincial/territorial early years services against a 15-point scale. Results are populated from detailed profiles of each province...

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Seven benefits to building down public education for younger children

Seven benefits to building down public education for younger children

Alexander Economic Views | November 30, 2023 "Given the considerable benefits to expanding early learning and the challenges in expanding licensed care, it is worth highlighting the merits of continuing to expand capacity through the public school system. This paper argues that there is considerable merit to expanding school-delivered early...

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