Hot off the Press: National Early Childhood Education Report

by | Nov 12, 2014 | Early Child Development, News

The 2014 Early Childhood Education Report, developed by researchers at the Atkinson Centre at the University of Toronto, has been released during a press conference today. This is the second report since 2011 documenting how the provinces and territories are supporting early education and care. In 2011, only three provinces received a passing grade on the report. Since then, considerable progress has been made, but gaps remain.

To quote our Executive Director, Marcel Lauzière, “The Lawson Foundation is proud to support the work that has led to the release of the Early Education Report 2014. Quality early childhood education is good for children, for families, for the economy and for society, and it is good for Canada. But we need to lift our collective game to support early learning. Effective monitoring of how we are building systems to support children and families is critical to let us know how we are doing and where we need to go. This is what the ECE report is all about.”

The Early Childhood Education Report 2014: It’s Time for Preschool and related documents can be accessed here: TimeForPreschool.ca and NosJeunesEnfants.ca.

Christine Alden

Christine Alden

Program Director at The Lawson Foundation
Christine has been with the Lawson Foundation as Program Director in the areas of Early Child Development and Outdoor Play since 2012. She received her PhD, which focused on outdoor pedagogy in Early Learning and Child Care, from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto in 2022.

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