Category: Policy with promise

Video: What benefits children’s development? What the top economist James Heckman really says.

Posted by on in Attachment, Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Children's Well-Being, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Policy with promise, Quality & staff-child ratios, Welfare reform, workfare, McJobs

February 2021 - video - interview with Nobel Laureate economist Dr James Heckman - American Enterprise Institute - "The Role of Families in Human Flourishing" Economist James Heckman's research on the cost-benefit of very high quality early intervention programs for…

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Video: What Benefits Children’s Development? What The Top Economist James Heckman Really Says.

Posted by on in All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC, Attachment, Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Children's Well-Being, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Parents’ and Children’s Rights, Policy with promise, Quality & staff-child ratios, Welfare reform, workfare, McJobs, Women & Work

February 2021. Katharine B. Stevens. American Enterprise Institute - (youtube video): Interview with Nobel Laureate economist Dr James Heckman - "The Role of Families in Human Flourishing" Original article: February 2021. Katharine B. Stevens. American Enterprise Institute - (article): The…

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Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward

Posted by on in 2021 Daycare Budget, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Policy with promise

2021 April. Kids First - (Youtube video): "Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward". Child care is the care of a child, whoever does it. Child care is socially essential work, whoever does it. But the…

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From pensions for “stay at home mums” to beer and popcorn: How the Liberal party reversed its policy on children and families

Posted by on in Government Submissions, Misc., Policy with promise

The Liberals have done a complete reversal of their position on children's care. In 1999, the Liberal government issued a report with a set of principles to guide child and family policy that makes the Conservative party $1,200 plan look…

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Calgary Herald article

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Policy with promise

Via IMFC February 20, 2014. IMFC - update (web): Calgary Herald: Andrea Mrozek quoted in editorial favouring income splitting See original article here: Calgary Herald article (broken link) See Also 1999 Federal Sub-Committee report (download PDF here) on income splitting

Swedish intolerance in child care

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Policy with promise, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

May 15, 2011. The Family Campaign Foundation of Sweden - media release (PDF): "Swedish intolerance in child care"

From pensions for “stay at home mums” to beer and popcorn: How the Liberal party reversed its policy on children and families

Posted by on in Government Submissions, Misc., Policy with promise

The Liberals have done a complete reversal of their position on children's care. In 1999, the Liberal government issued a report with a set of principles to guide child and family policy that makes the Conservative party $1,200 plan look…

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Feb 11, 2011 National Post debate on national daycare (broken link)

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Policy with promise

Feb 11, 2011 National Post debate on national daycare: Daycare lobbyists write, Why we need a national child-care program (broken link), and Tasha Kheiriddin responds with, Support parents, not the daycare industry (broken link). Readers respond with four votes against…

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When Did Education Become a Race?

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc., Policy with promise

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…

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“Play-based learning” proven not effective – direct instruction method proven highly effective

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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…

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