By Helen Ward, Vancouver Sun May 28, 2010 4:07 AM Vancouver city council, following New Westminster's lead, will vote on a "living wage" of over $18 an hour for municipal workers. Economists promoting this garner support by claiming living wages…
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Below is a statement by Jonas Himmelstrand of the Swedish family organisation, Haro, presented at the Familyplatform conference in Lisbon in May 2010. FamilyPlatform is a project financed by the European Commission to look into research areas for future European…
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Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations (broken link). It pushed “universal preschool” (broken link) in California. A new book, Soldiers of Reason: the…
Stress in Daycare (broken link) – Sir Richard Bowlby 2007. This report regards policy for children under 30 months (2 1/2 yrs). Children who form a “secondary attachment” may not experience the stress (high cortisol levels) found in children in…
Open letter demands full-day schooling for age 3-5 and daycare (broken link): the letter claiming disproven Utopian social and economic benefits for preschool and daycare is sponsored by maritime heiress Margaret McCain and signed by daycare lobby voices.
In Ontario, the Liberals and NDP make full-day school for age 4-5 an election promise and disregard kindergarten child:staff ratios of 20:1—Full-day kindergarten no treat for kids (a Hamilton Spectator article by Kate Tennier)
Early Learning, er Kindergarten Daycare, Passes (broken link). A blog post by the executive director of the Society for Quality Education.
All-Day K Money Tree: Ontario government decides taxpayers must give millions to daycares to NOT provide daycare. April 27, 2010 Letter from Ontario government to daycares. $51 million annually for not doing daycare for 4-5 year olds, plus millions more…
Queensland, Australia: Kids Fail New All-day Kindergarten. When the 3 half-day per week program for 5 yr olds was dropped for 5 full days per week, many kids failed the program or grade according to data found in a Freedom…
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Starting in September, nearly 600 schools, in school districts across Ontario will offer full-day kindergarten for 4-and 5-year-olds. And in British Columbia, full-day kindergarten begins for approximately 50 per cent of 5-year-olds. When did education become a race? According to…
The "Follow Through project" was a huge US study of effectiveness of different approaches for dis-advantaged kids grades K-8.In his article, "Project Follow Through: In-depth and Beyond," (broken link) Gary Adams writes, "The Follow Through project was the largest, most…
March 22, 2010. Kate Tennier. Winterhill - gov. sub. (PDF): "Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy; Re: Bill 242" March 29, 2010. Jonas Himmelstrand. The Mireja Institute – government submission: Jonas Himmelstrand Submission re Bill 242 (PDF). (see…
Join Kindergarten Credit in the fight against all-day Kindergarten in Ontario (PDF)
All five "Experts in the Field of Early Childhood Education" listed by the BC Government for the consultation are from HELP (Human Early Learning Partnership), including Hillel Goelman, HELP Director and author of the 2007 Vancouver Sun article describing and…
Council on Early Child Development (founded by F Mustard, HELP’s C Hertzman President)World BankOECDFraser Mustard (broken link), Chair in Childhood Development at Alberta Children’s HospitalMisleading out of context quote (broken link):“Early childhood investments of high quality have lasting effects…. We…
