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Full-day learning deserves support
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Full-day learning deserves support
June 16, 2009
For Ontario to have the prosperous future we all want, we need all our children to have the best possible start in life. Yet, more than one quarter of our children arrive in Grade 1 significantly behind their peers, and evidence shows they never catch up.
No one’s life should be predetermined at such a young age.
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Opportunity to transform early learning in Ontario
TheStar.com – Opinion – Opportunity to transform early learning in Ontario: Evidence supports Pascal’s blueprint for an integrated approach for children under 6
June 16, 2009. Jim Grieve, Director of Education, Peel District School Board
Bill Hogarth, Director of Education, York Region District School Board
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Full-day kindergarten comes into play
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – Full-day kindergarten comes into play: McGuinty proposes ambitious plan to put Ontario’s four- and five-year-olds under the same roof all day – at a cost of $1-billion
Tuesday, Jun. 16, 2009. Caroline Alphonso, Dakshana Bascaramurty and Dawn Walton
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s self-proclaimed role as the education premier will be tested as he embarks on an integrated full-day kindergarten and childcare program with the province facing a mounting deficit and opposition from the country’s largest teachers’ union.
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All-day kindergarten is not the magic bullet
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – All-day kindergarten is not the magic bullet: The benefits of early childhood education are less than advocates claim
Jun. 15, 2009. Margaret Wente
Who could possibly argue against more kindergarten for our kids? Not me. You might as well denounce apple sauce and motherhood. Kindergarten is a lot of fun, not to mention a safe, convenient place for mom and dad to stash the kids while they go to work.
But is all-day kindergarten the panacea for all our social ills?
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All-day kindergarten ideal for children, Ontario report says
TheGlobeandMail.com – National – All-day kindergarten ideal for children, Ontario report says: Calling for blanket reforms to early education, policy could become national model
Monday, Jun. 15, 2009. Joe Friesen
All-day kindergarten and seamless, school-centred childcare for four and five-year-olds are the recommendations of a proposed new education policy that could herald a sea change in Ontario’s approach to child development, one that could become a national model.
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Full-day learning starts next year [blending kindergarten and daycare for children aged 4 and 5]
TheStar.com – news/parentcentral.ca – EARLY LEARNING: Full-day learning starts next year: McGuinty to back education blueprint blending kindergarten and daycare for children aged 4 and 5
June 15, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten, Kristin Rushowy
Premier Dalton McGuinty today will announce full-day learning for 4- and 5-year-olds starting next year, based on a provincial adviser’s $1 billion plan that would see elementary schools become year-round hubs for children from birth to age 12.
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Take over daycares, Ontario schools told
TheStar.com – Ontario/ParentCentral – Take over daycares, Ontario schools told:
Major report proposes sweeping changes to meld daycare and kindergarten into full-day program
June 14, 2009. Kristin Rushowy, EDUCATION REPORTER
Ontario parents of 4- and 5-year-olds should be able to leave their children at school from 7:30 in the morning to 6 p.m. as part of sweeping changes bringing daycare and kindergarten under one roof, the Star has learned.
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Ontario funding keeps Canada in stem-cell project
TheGlobeandMail.com – National/Ontario – Ontario funding keeps Canada in stem-cell project: Province kicks in $3.8-million over four years on international effort to map how genes work as embryonic stem cells develop
Jun. 12, 2009. ANNE McILROY, SCIENCE REPORTER
The province of Ontario has pitched in enough cash to allow Canada to remain part of a major international effort to map the genetic circuitry of stem cells after federal funding was cut earlier this year.
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If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? [Women]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – If we’re so equal, why aren’t we happy? For women, the desire to have it all comes with the obligation to do it all
Jun. 12, 2009. Margaret Wente
In 1963, an angry woman named Betty Friedan published a groundbreaking book about “the problem that has no name.” In it, she described the stifled lives of women in North America – talented, creative, and increasingly educated women who were trapped in the suburbs, leading lives of quiet desperation.
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Canada to step up flu vaccine research
NationalPost.com – Canada – Canada to step up flu vaccine research
June 05, 2009. Reuters
TORONTO — Canadian health officials created a network of researchers to speed up influenza vaccine research Friday, saying they will test new vaccines against the new H1N1 flu.
The network of 80 scientists from 30 research and public health institutions will get C$10.8 million ($9.7 million) over three years, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said.
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