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.

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

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

  3. Early years study 3: Making decisions, taking action

  4. Early years education and care in Ontario schools, 2011

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

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