Child care: Research, quality, costs

A new book challenges the direction Ontario is going with universal programs for our youngest children

July 15, 2009 | by Andrea Mrozek , Manager of Research and Communications, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Pascal, C. (2009, June 15). With our best future in mind: Implementing early learning in Ontario. Ontario Ministry of Education, p. 10. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://www.ontario.ca/earlylearning
  2. Finn, C. E. (2009, June 6). Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut. Education Next, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from http://www.hooverpress.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1346
  3. Finn, p. 43.
  4. The High/Scope Perry Preschool study is frequently cited to bolster claims that early intervention in children works. This intervention was targeted, however, at 123 children and therefore can't be applied to the entire province of Ontario. Information about the study can be found at http://www.highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=219
  5. Finn, p. 14.
  6. Finn, p. 31.
  7. Finn, p. 15.
  8. Finn, p. ix.
  9. Finn, p. 98.
  10. Clipper, L.J., Thompson, J.J., Brangwyn, F., Marlin, G., Rabatin, R.P. Swan, J.L., (Editors). (1986). The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton,The Drift from Domesticity. San Francisco: Ignatius Press.