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        • Challenges Remain
        • Access Matters but so Does Quality
        • Funding Methodology Matters
        • The Education/Care Gap
        • Results
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        • Direct Federal Funding to ECE Programs
        • Policy Developments: The Provinces & Territories
          • 1. Governance
          • 2. Funding
          • 3. Access
          • 4. Learning Environments
          • 5. Accountability
          • 6. Trends
        • References
        • Terms used in the Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • Acknowledgements
      • Provincial/Territorial Profiles
        • Newfoundland and Labrador
        • Prince Edward Island
        • Nova Scotia
        • New Brunswick
        • Quebec
        • Ontario
        • Manitoba
        • Saskatchewan
        • Alberta
        • British Columbia
        • Northwest Territories
      • Methodology
        • Developing the Report
        • The Influence of The OECD and other International Measures
        • The ECE Report 2014 Categories
        • Attaining the Benchmarks
          • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
          • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
          • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
          • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
          • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
        • Next Steps for The Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • References
      • About the Authors
      • Questions & Answers
      • Results at a Glance
      • What Others are Saying
      • Presentations & Resources
        • Presentations
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    • ECE Report 2011 (Early Years Study 3)
      • Introduction: Foundations are Stepping up for Children
        • 1. Getting crazy for the kids
        • 2. Changing the conversation
        • 3. The resources can be found
        • 4. Turning Science into Action
      • Introduction: Mothers and others needed for healthy human development
        • 1. Childhood makes us human
        • 2. Closing the gap between rich and poor
        • Introduction: References
      • Chapter 1: A Smart Start for School and Life
        • 1. Good education cares
        • 2. The child care dilemma
        • 3. The loop in the public debate
        • 4. Starting from education's base
        • 5. One-in-four start out disadvantaged
        • 6. Democracy in trouble
        • 7. Making a difference
        • 8. Paying for inaction
        • 9. Turning chaos into systems
        • 10. Changing populations
        • 11. Changing families
        • Chapter 1: Figures
        • Chapter 1: References
      • Chapter 2: Early Life and Learning, Behaviour and Health
        • 1. Genes and environments
        • 2. Building the brain's architecture
        • 3. Sensory Pathways
        • 4. The limbic system pathways
        • 5. Prefrontal cortex pathways
        • 6. Language pathways
        • 7. Learning, behaviour and health
        • 8. Early adversity and later life
        • 9. Consilience: A new framework of understanding
        • Chapter 2: Figures
        • Chapter 2: References
      • Chapter 3: Creating Spaces and Places for Young Children and Families
        • 1. Celebrating childhood
        • 2. What early childhood education offers children and families
        • 3. Components of quality early childhood education
        • 4. Educators matter
        • 5. Early childhood options for all
        • 6. Challenges to early childhood service integration
        • 7. Benefits of early childhood program integration
        • 8. New thinking for new challenges
        • 9. Influencing policy change
        • Chapter 3: Figures
        • Chapter 3: References
      • Chapter 4: Early Childhood Education as Economic Development
        • 1. Decades of research reveal benefits
        • 2. Canadian cost-benefit analyses
        • 3. Developing community capacity to support children
        • 4. Child care as regional economic development
        • 5. Preschool as economic stimulus
        • 6. Early childhood programming: A no cost solution
        • 7. Wisely investing in early childhood
        • Chapter 4: Figures
        • Chapter 4: References
      • Chapter 5: Public Policy Shapes Early Childhood Programs
        • 1. Federal involvement in ECE policy and programs
        • 2. Direct federal funding to ECE programs
        • 3.1 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Governance
        • 3.2 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Funding
        • 3.3 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Access
        • 3.4 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Learning Environments
        • 4. Curriculum
        • 5. Next Steps
        • Chapter 5: Figures
        • Chapter 5: References
      • Chapter 6: Where are we? How Far do we have to go?
        • 1. Improving outcomes for children
        • 2. Three make passing grade
        • Chapter 6: Figures
        • Chapter 6: References
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        • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
        • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
        • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
        • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
        • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
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        • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
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      • Executive Summary
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        • Attention to Governance
        • More Funding
        • More Programming
        • Improved Quality
        • Challenges Remain
        • Access Matters but so Does Quality
        • Funding Methodology Matters
        • The Education/Care Gap
        • Results
      • Early Childhood Education - Full Report
        • Direct Federal Funding to ECE Programs
        • Policy Developments: The Provinces & Territories
          • 1. Governance
          • 2. Funding
          • 3. Access
          • 4. Learning Environments
          • 5. Accountability
          • 6. Trends
        • References
        • Terms used in the Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • Acknowledgements
      • Provincial/Territorial Profiles
        • Newfoundland and Labrador
        • Prince Edward Island
        • Nova Scotia
        • New Brunswick
        • Quebec
        • Ontario
        • Manitoba
        • Saskatchewan
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        • British Columbia
        • Northwest Territories
      • Methodology
        • Developing the Report
        • The Influence of The OECD and other International Measures
        • The ECE Report 2014 Categories
        • Attaining the Benchmarks
          • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
          • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
          • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
          • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
          • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
        • Next Steps for The Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • References
      • About the Authors
      • Questions & Answers
      • Results at a Glance
      • What Others are Saying
      • Presentations & Resources
        • Presentations
        • Videos
        • Press Releases
    • ECE Report 2011 (Early Years Study 3)
      • Introduction: Foundations are Stepping up for Children
        • 1. Getting crazy for the kids
        • 2. Changing the conversation
        • 3. The resources can be found
        • 4. Turning Science into Action
      • Introduction: Mothers and others needed for healthy human development
        • 1. Childhood makes us human
        • 2. Closing the gap between rich and poor
        • Introduction: References
      • Chapter 1: A Smart Start for School and Life
        • 1. Good education cares
        • 2. The child care dilemma
        • 3. The loop in the public debate
        • 4. Starting from education's base
        • 5. One-in-four start out disadvantaged
        • 6. Democracy in trouble
        • 7. Making a difference
        • 8. Paying for inaction
        • 9. Turning chaos into systems
        • 10. Changing populations
        • 11. Changing families
        • Chapter 1: Figures
        • Chapter 1: References
      • Chapter 2: Early Life and Learning, Behaviour and Health
        • 1. Genes and environments
        • 2. Building the brain's architecture
        • 3. Sensory Pathways
        • 4. The limbic system pathways
        • 5. Prefrontal cortex pathways
        • 6. Language pathways
        • 7. Learning, behaviour and health
        • 8. Early adversity and later life
        • 9. Consilience: A new framework of understanding
        • Chapter 2: Figures
        • Chapter 2: References
      • Chapter 3: Creating Spaces and Places for Young Children and Families
        • 1. Celebrating childhood
        • 2. What early childhood education offers children and families
        • 3. Components of quality early childhood education
        • 4. Educators matter
        • 5. Early childhood options for all
        • 6. Challenges to early childhood service integration
        • 7. Benefits of early childhood program integration
        • 8. New thinking for new challenges
        • 9. Influencing policy change
        • Chapter 3: Figures
        • Chapter 3: References
      • Chapter 4: Early Childhood Education as Economic Development
        • 1. Decades of research reveal benefits
        • 2. Canadian cost-benefit analyses
        • 3. Developing community capacity to support children
        • 4. Child care as regional economic development
        • 5. Preschool as economic stimulus
        • 6. Early childhood programming: A no cost solution
        • 7. Wisely investing in early childhood
        • Chapter 4: Figures
        • Chapter 4: References
      • Chapter 5: Public Policy Shapes Early Childhood Programs
        • 1. Federal involvement in ECE policy and programs
        • 2. Direct federal funding to ECE programs
        • 3.1 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Governance
        • 3.2 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Funding
        • 3.3 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Access
        • 3.4 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Learning Environments
        • 4. Curriculum
        • 5. Next Steps
        • Chapter 5: Figures
        • Chapter 5: References
      • Chapter 6: Where are we? How Far do we have to go?
        • 1. Improving outcomes for children
        • 2. Three make passing grade
        • Chapter 6: Figures
        • Chapter 6: References
        • Download the Study
      • ECE Report
        • Early Childhood Education Report 2011
        • Developing the Report
        • The influence of the OECD and other international measures
        • The ECDI categories
        • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
        • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
        • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
        • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
        • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
        • Next Steps for the Early Childhood Education Report 2011
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        • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
        • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
        • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
        • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
        • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
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      • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Nova Scotia
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      • Executive Summary
        • The Policy Gap
        • Attention to Governance
        • More Funding
        • More Programming
        • Improved Quality
        • Challenges Remain
        • Access Matters but so Does Quality
        • Funding Methodology Matters
        • The Education/Care Gap
        • Results
      • Early Childhood Education - Full Report
        • Direct Federal Funding to ECE Programs
        • Policy Developments: The Provinces & Territories
          • 1. Governance
          • 2. Funding
          • 3. Access
          • 4. Learning Environments
          • 5. Accountability
          • 6. Trends
        • References
        • Terms used in the Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • Acknowledgements
      • Provincial/Territorial Profiles
        • Newfoundland and Labrador
        • Prince Edward Island
        • Nova Scotia
        • New Brunswick
        • Quebec
        • Ontario
        • Manitoba
        • Saskatchewan
        • Alberta
        • British Columbia
        • Northwest Territories
      • Methodology
        • Developing the Report
        • The Influence of The OECD and other International Measures
        • The ECE Report 2014 Categories
        • Attaining the Benchmarks
          • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
          • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
          • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
          • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
          • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
        • Next Steps for The Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • References
      • About the Authors
      • Questions & Answers
      • Results at a Glance
      • What Others are Saying
      • Presentations & Resources
        • Presentations
        • Videos
        • Press Releases
    • ECE Report 2011 (Early Years Study 3)
      • Introduction: Foundations are Stepping up for Children
        • 1. Getting crazy for the kids
        • 2. Changing the conversation
        • 3. The resources can be found
        • 4. Turning Science into Action
      • Introduction: Mothers and others needed for healthy human development
        • 1. Childhood makes us human
        • 2. Closing the gap between rich and poor
        • Introduction: References
      • Chapter 1: A Smart Start for School and Life
        • 1. Good education cares
        • 2. The child care dilemma
        • 3. The loop in the public debate
        • 4. Starting from education's base
        • 5. One-in-four start out disadvantaged
        • 6. Democracy in trouble
        • 7. Making a difference
        • 8. Paying for inaction
        • 9. Turning chaos into systems
        • 10. Changing populations
        • 11. Changing families
        • Chapter 1: Figures
        • Chapter 1: References
      • Chapter 2: Early Life and Learning, Behaviour and Health
        • 1. Genes and environments
        • 2. Building the brain's architecture
        • 3. Sensory Pathways
        • 4. The limbic system pathways
        • 5. Prefrontal cortex pathways
        • 6. Language pathways
        • 7. Learning, behaviour and health
        • 8. Early adversity and later life
        • 9. Consilience: A new framework of understanding
        • Chapter 2: Figures
        • Chapter 2: References
      • Chapter 3: Creating Spaces and Places for Young Children and Families
        • 1. Celebrating childhood
        • 2. What early childhood education offers children and families
        • 3. Components of quality early childhood education
        • 4. Educators matter
        • 5. Early childhood options for all
        • 6. Challenges to early childhood service integration
        • 7. Benefits of early childhood program integration
        • 8. New thinking for new challenges
        • 9. Influencing policy change
        • Chapter 3: Figures
        • Chapter 3: References
      • Chapter 4: Early Childhood Education as Economic Development
        • 1. Decades of research reveal benefits
        • 2. Canadian cost-benefit analyses
        • 3. Developing community capacity to support children
        • 4. Child care as regional economic development
        • 5. Preschool as economic stimulus
        • 6. Early childhood programming: A no cost solution
        • 7. Wisely investing in early childhood
        • Chapter 4: Figures
        • Chapter 4: References
      • Chapter 5: Public Policy Shapes Early Childhood Programs
        • 1. Federal involvement in ECE policy and programs
        • 2. Direct federal funding to ECE programs
        • 3.1 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Governance
        • 3.2 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Funding
        • 3.3 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Access
        • 3.4 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Learning Environments
        • 4. Curriculum
        • 5. Next Steps
        • Chapter 5: Figures
        • Chapter 5: References
      • Chapter 6: Where are we? How Far do we have to go?
        • 1. Improving outcomes for children
        • 2. Three make passing grade
        • Chapter 6: Figures
        • Chapter 6: References
        • Download the Study
      • ECE Report
        • Early Childhood Education Report 2011
        • Developing the Report
        • The influence of the OECD and other international measures
        • The ECDI categories
        • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
        • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
        • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
        • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
        • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
        • Next Steps for the Early Childhood Education Report 2011
        • Download Report
    • All Studies
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  • Report
    • Summary Report
      • Summary Report
      • Attention to Governance
      • More Funding
      • Access
      • Quality
      • Accountability
      • Challenges
      • Acknowledgements
    • ECE Report 2017 Results
    • ECE Trends
    • Methodology
      • Methodology
      • Developing the Report
      • The Influence of The OECD and other International Measures
      • The ECE Report Categories
      • Attaining the Benchmarks
        • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
        • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
        • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
        • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
        • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
      • Next Steps for The Early Childhood Education Report
      • References
    • Provincial/Territorial Profiles
      • Federal
      • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Nova Scotia
      • New Brunswick
      • Quebec
      • Ontario
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Northwest Territories
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Charts and Graphs
  • Additional Resources
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    • About the Authors
    • Questions & Answers
    • Acknowledgements
    • Terms Used
    • Videos
  • Previous Reports
    • ECE Report 2014
      • Executive Summary
        • The Policy Gap
        • Attention to Governance
        • More Funding
        • More Programming
        • Improved Quality
        • Challenges Remain
        • Access Matters but so Does Quality
        • Funding Methodology Matters
        • The Education/Care Gap
        • Results
      • Early Childhood Education - Full Report
        • Direct Federal Funding to ECE Programs
        • Policy Developments: The Provinces & Territories
          • 1. Governance
          • 2. Funding
          • 3. Access
          • 4. Learning Environments
          • 5. Accountability
          • 6. Trends
        • References
        • Terms used in the Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • Acknowledgements
      • Provincial/Territorial Profiles
        • Newfoundland and Labrador
        • Prince Edward Island
        • Nova Scotia
        • New Brunswick
        • Quebec
        • Ontario
        • Manitoba
        • Saskatchewan
        • Alberta
        • British Columbia
        • Northwest Territories
      • Methodology
        • Developing the Report
        • The Influence of The OECD and other International Measures
        • The ECE Report 2014 Categories
        • Attaining the Benchmarks
          • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
          • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
          • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
          • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
          • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
        • Next Steps for The Early Childhood Education Report 2014
        • References
      • About the Authors
      • Questions & Answers
      • Results at a Glance
      • What Others are Saying
      • Presentations & Resources
        • Presentations
        • Videos
        • Press Releases
    • ECE Report 2011 (Early Years Study 3)
      • Introduction: Foundations are Stepping up for Children
        • 1. Getting crazy for the kids
        • 2. Changing the conversation
        • 3. The resources can be found
        • 4. Turning Science into Action
      • Introduction: Mothers and others needed for healthy human development
        • 1. Childhood makes us human
        • 2. Closing the gap between rich and poor
        • Introduction: References
      • Chapter 1: A Smart Start for School and Life
        • 1. Good education cares
        • 2. The child care dilemma
        • 3. The loop in the public debate
        • 4. Starting from education's base
        • 5. One-in-four start out disadvantaged
        • 6. Democracy in trouble
        • 7. Making a difference
        • 8. Paying for inaction
        • 9. Turning chaos into systems
        • 10. Changing populations
        • 11. Changing families
        • Chapter 1: Figures
        • Chapter 1: References
      • Chapter 2: Early Life and Learning, Behaviour and Health
        • 1. Genes and environments
        • 2. Building the brain's architecture
        • 3. Sensory Pathways
        • 4. The limbic system pathways
        • 5. Prefrontal cortex pathways
        • 6. Language pathways
        • 7. Learning, behaviour and health
        • 8. Early adversity and later life
        • 9. Consilience: A new framework of understanding
        • Chapter 2: Figures
        • Chapter 2: References
      • Chapter 3: Creating Spaces and Places for Young Children and Families
        • 1. Celebrating childhood
        • 2. What early childhood education offers children and families
        • 3. Components of quality early childhood education
        • 4. Educators matter
        • 5. Early childhood options for all
        • 6. Challenges to early childhood service integration
        • 7. Benefits of early childhood program integration
        • 8. New thinking for new challenges
        • 9. Influencing policy change
        • Chapter 3: Figures
        • Chapter 3: References
      • Chapter 4: Early Childhood Education as Economic Development
        • 1. Decades of research reveal benefits
        • 2. Canadian cost-benefit analyses
        • 3. Developing community capacity to support children
        • 4. Child care as regional economic development
        • 5. Preschool as economic stimulus
        • 6. Early childhood programming: A no cost solution
        • 7. Wisely investing in early childhood
        • Chapter 4: Figures
        • Chapter 4: References
      • Chapter 5: Public Policy Shapes Early Childhood Programs
        • 1. Federal involvement in ECE policy and programs
        • 2. Direct federal funding to ECE programs
        • 3.1 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Governance
        • 3.2 Policy developments: The provinces and territories - Funding
        • 3.3 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Access
        • 3.4 Policy developments: The Provinces and Territories - Learning Environments
        • 4. Curriculum
        • 5. Next Steps
        • Chapter 5: Figures
        • Chapter 5: References
      • Chapter 6: Where are we? How Far do we have to go?
        • 1. Improving outcomes for children
        • 2. Three make passing grade
        • Chapter 6: Figures
        • Chapter 6: References
        • Download the Study
      • ECE Report
        • Early Childhood Education Report 2011
        • Developing the Report
        • The influence of the OECD and other international measures
        • The ECDI categories
        • I. Benchmarks focused on governance for integrated early childhood education
        • II. Benchmarks focused on funding to promote quality, access and equity
        • III. Benchmarks focused on equitable access
        • IV. Benchmarks focusing on quality in the early learning environment
        • V. Benchmarks focused on accountability
        • Next Steps for the Early Childhood Education Report 2011
        • Download Report
    • All Studies
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Press Releases

OISE's Atkinson Centre releases report on early childhood education in Canada

Source: OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), University of Toronto

Excerpt: When the first Early Childhood Education Report was released in 2011, only three Canadian jurisdictions made it past the halfway mark on the report's 15-point scale. Today, Quebec and Prince Edward Island are tied for first place with 10 points, while four other provinces—New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia—scored above 7. The other provinces and the Northwest Territories range between 4.5 and 6.5 points.

Link: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/About_OISE/oise_atkinsoncentre_releases_early_childhood_education_report.html
 

The Early Childhood Education Report 2014: It's Time for Preschool Released

Source: OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), University of Toronto

Excerpt: The Early Childhood Education Report 2014: It’s Time for Preschool released today by the Atkinson Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto is the second status update in three years. It measures provincial and territorial performance based on different criteria including investments in early education and child care programs and children’s access. It also compares Canada’s results to other developed economies.

Link: http://ecereport.ca/en/presentations-resources/press-releases/ecer-2014-released/

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    • Attention to Governance
    • More Funding
    • Access
    • Quality
    • Accountability
    • Challenges
    • Acknowledgements

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