Early childhood education

What does the research say?

Early childhood education includes learning programs for children from birth to age 6. Parent-child programs, daycares, pre-schools and nursery schools, junior and senior kindergarten, and grade1 all have roles in early childhood education. In this section, you can find out about early childhood programs and their impact on future student success.

  • The state of early childhood education and care in Canada 2010: Trends and analysis

    Childcare Resource and Research Unit: 2013 The state of early childhood education and care was pronounced an ‘underfunded patchwork’ by the OECD in Toronto.   This report, which uses longitudinal data.

  • 2012

    Starting strong 3: A quality toolbox for early education and care

    OECD: 2012. The Starting Strong series of reports from the OECD have had a significant international impact on the agenda for early childhood education and care over the past decade.

  • 2012

    Early years, 2012

    This is a chapter from the Annual Report on Ontario’s Publicly Funded Schools 2012, and includes research and analysis regarding early years education in schools. Every year, People for Education.

  • 2012

    Key findings from year 1 of full-day early learning kindergarten in Peel

    Janette Pelletier, Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, March 2012 The research is part of an ongoing longitudinal study on the implementation and impact of.

  • Early childhood education and care: Lessons from research for policy makers

    Network of Experts in Social Sciences of Education/ Helen Penn: 2009. This report is an authoritative, analytical overview of research evidence around early childhood education and care.

  • 2011

  • 2011

    Early years education and care in Ontario schools, 2011

    People for Education, 2011. This chapter from the Annual Report on Ontario’s Publicly Funded Schools 2011, includes research and analysis regarding full-day kindergarten, before and after-school programs, and family support.

  • 2010

    A new goal for public education: Schools at the centre
    Annual report on Ontario’s publicly funded schools 2010

    People for Education, 2010. Using data from the People for Education Annual School Survey, as well as information from the EQAO, Statistics Canada and the Ontario Ministry of Education, this.

  • 2009

    With our best future in mind: Implementing early learning in Ontario

    Report to Ontario Government, 2009 Dr. Charles Pascal, the Premier’s Special Advisor on Early Learning, created a blueprint for all-day early learning and family support.