New Brunswick

The CBC's Harry Forestell talks with Margaret McCain, early childhood education advocate.

Transcript: "Advocates of early childhood learning met with the Minister of Education today. They're trying to convince New Brunswick to expand publicly funded education and care to all 2- to 5-year-olds. Several pilot projects have already shown that preschoolers thrive in school-centred daycare programs and that they perform better in school later in life. Margaret Norrie McCain has been a relentless proponent of early education, spending her own money and time on research and pilot projects to prove the point. She joins me now from Fredericton ...

FREDERICTON, NB, Feb. 7, 2012 - The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain is in Fredericton Feb. 10 for meetings with Government and community leaders and to share the latest in a trio of reports she has co-authored on the scientific, social and economic rationales for investing in early child education.   Early Years Study 3 also introduces the Early Childhood Education Index, a tool that evaluates the effectiveness of provincial early childhood service systems.

Friday, February 10

Noon - Roundtable meeting with Minister Jody Carr, officials from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and sector leaders.  Marshall d'Avray Hall, Room 322 ...

The Year 2 research report on the New Brunswick Early Childhood Centres, produced by the Health and Education Research Group (HERG) is now available.

Report description: "This report describes the ongoing evaluation of the integrated platform of services being demonstrated at the New Brunswick Early Childhood Development Centres, and presents selected outcomes from the first two years of implementation.  Research outcomes are expressed in terms of benefits of an integrated model of services; impacts on children, families, staff and service providers; as well as some of the challenges encountered at the community and provincial levels.

Findings from the four provincially ...

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Félicitations La Boussole!

On December 6, 2011, La Boussole, Centre de la petite enfance et de la famille de Richibucto celebrated its first anniversary.  The Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain and Jane Bertrand sent the following message to La Boussole on this occasion:

Together you have accomplished much in the past couple of years. You are building a strong platform of early childhood and family programs aligned to the public education at Soleil Levant School.  Since the opening of La Boussole in the fall of 2010, you have continued to build partnerships, expand services and meet the needs of ...

Débuts prometteurs pour enfants ruraux grâce à Start SMART

BURTTS CORNER, NB - An innovative new children’s centre officially opened its doors here today at a local school packed with kids, parents, government and community officials. Special guests Premier David Alward and Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Jody Carr toured the facility and chatted with children, parents and staff.
 
Called “Start SMART,” the program is a unique partnership between Keswick Valley Memorial School, Family Resource Centres, District 14 of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and Neighbours Alliance of North York, the community organization that oversees the ...