Sept 7, 2010 Globe and Mail article—Full-day kindergarten in Ontario gets failing grade (. The article includes comments from Kate Tennier, Kindergarten Credit co-ordinator, and Dr Kevin Milligan, UBC economist.
Category: Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural
Research on the Negative Health Impacts of Daycare Centres (broken link)
Hazards for Daycare Staff A study in the Oxford Journal of Occupational Medicine finds the health hazards for daycare staff include injury, infection, stress due to exposure to saliva and feces, biting, noise, being undervalued, fear of liability, etc.: Occupational…
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Not all hands are up for full-day kindergarten (broken link)
Not all hands are up for full-day kindergarten (broken link). Aug 2010 article in The Globe and Mail
Stress in Daycare (broken link)
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…
In Ontario, the Liberals and NDP make full-day school for age 4-5 an election promise
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)
Queensland, Australia: Kids Fail New All-day Kindergarten
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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When Did Education Become a Race?
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…
HELP Helping itself to Heckman
Government-Funded Daycare/All-Day K Promoters Lie When they Claim Nobel-Prize Economist Agrees with Them. Daycare and all-day kindergarten promoters including HELP and Charles Pascal & Fraser Mustard all say Nobel Prize Economist Dr James Heckman’s research supports their policy. This is…
Daycare system needs an urgent fix (broken link)
Daycare system needs an urgent fix (broken link): Mar 28, 2010 article in The Gazette talks about the Quebec daycare sponsorship scandal. Daycare operators are donating to political parties. In Ontario and BC, how much do the YMCA, CUPE, teachers…
Some of the kids are all right (broken link)
Some of the kids are all right (broken link). National Post editorial explains how “Canada is on the wrong track” with its push for all-day kindergarten.
Age 5 too young to start school, too much testing according to a major Cambridge University review of UK primary (broken link)
Age 5 too young to start school, too much testing according to a major Cambridge University review of UK primary (broken link). News Response: October 15, 2009. Reuters - article (web): "Children at 5 “too young” to start school" Feb,…
Social policy “ruining childhood”: Childhood is being undermined by a string of “oppressive demands” from ministers disguised as social policy, experts have claimed
Social policy “ruining childhood”: Childhood is being undermined by a string of “oppressive demands” from ministers disguised as social policy, experts have claimed. June 17, 2009 web article in Telegraph.co.uk
“Real choice” in child care through direct funding to parents is championed by leading child development researcher internationally (broken link)
“Real choice” in child care through direct funding to parents is championed by leading child development researcher internationally: Effects of Child Care on Child Development: Give Parents Real Choice (broken link) by Jay BelskyInstitute for the Study of Children, Families…
UNICEF Report on Daycare
Innocenti Centre/OECD Report promotes daycare yet says it harms child development. Published by the Innocenti Centre, now a department of UNICEF. Written by Peter Adamson drawing on research by John Bennett from the OECD’s daycare agency:2008. UNICEF - report (PDF):…
Parent-Child Attachment Now a Political Issue in Britain. New Report from ex-leader of Conservatives says government should stop pressuring parents to use daycare centres
Parent-Child Attachment Now a Political Issue in Britain. New Report from ex-leader of Conservatives says government should stop pressuring parents to use daycare centres London Times Online editorial by report sponsor, former Conservative Party Leader, Iain Duncan Smith: “Think tank:…