Sept 2013 Hamilton Spectator article - Kids First quoted "Full-Day kindergarten is merely glorified babysitting" Kids First Parent Association of Canada is not impressed with the move toward all-day kindergarten. "There is not one peer-reviewed empirical study of long-term outcomes…
Read More Sept 2013: Hamilton Spectator article – Kids First quoted
Sept 2013: The Telegraph newspaper - UK coalition says The Government should stop intervening in early education. Letter signed by many experts says evidence supports more play and later formal schooling
Aug 2013 Globe and Mail article: All Day K in Ontario put in despite lack of facilities and school board objections
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School, a Slate article by Alison Gopnik
May 2013, Maclean's Magazine article: Why full-day kindergarten doesn't work. The article highlights the lack of concern for children's well-being in the education ministries and their total refusal to accept the findings of peer reviewed research. Note: the article incorrectly…
Read More Maclean's Magazine article: Why full-day kindergarten doesn't work. (broken link)
Mar 17, 2013: UK Daily Mail article featuring Kids First Swedish colleague, Jonas Himmelstrand, Long days at nursery or with childminders 'raising a generation of school tearaways'. Research says that bad behaviour is linked to hours spent without parents. Jonas…
Read More UK Daily Mail article featuring Kids First Swedish Colleague
Aug 30, 2012 (web): Nurturing children: Why “early learning” doesn’t help. An article by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada with interviews of Dr Gordon Neufeld and Kids First President, Helen Ward download PDF copy here
July/August 2012: Costco Connections Debate on all-day Kindergarten with Helen Ward of Kids First: Send in your input and do the poll. Here is an uncut version of the Costco article with references/links (PDF)
Mar 2012: Queen’s University economists also find harm to children’s outcomes from Quebec daycare (broken link) /Baker-Gruber-Milligan findings for Quebec continue
Dec 2011, Montreal Gazette article – Corruption and unfairness in Quebec’s daycare system (broken link). NOTE: the article’s claim that daycare demand is higher than supply is very questionable. Parents in polls say they prefer parental care. Demand is artificially…
