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Inequities in early childhood education and care (ECEC), formal education and youth training.

Test:

Novel solutions to known problems, collaborating with stakeholders.

Create:

Knowledge mobilization tools, including evidence-informed policy.

We draw on multidisciplinary insights from many fields, including economics, applied psychology and human development, and political science. We work with researchers across Canada and abroad to answer questions, develop interventions and mobilize information.

We are exploring scalable, equitable research, targeting the nuanced needs of Canadian children and youth, from ECEC through to youth job training. We consider and attend to differences in experiences across regions, socio–economic, and cultural landscapes. Gaining an understanding of where inequities lie and for which groups of learners is the first step toward ensuring equitable care, educational and training systems for all Canadian children and youth.

 

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Quantitative Analysis and Methods

Intervention Creation and Testing

Improving young children’s peer collaboration in early educational settings

Improving young children’s peer collaboration in early educational settings

Peer collaboration is a foundational skill that emerges in early childhood. Children spend significant time in early educational settings, making it an important setting where young children can learn how to collaborate with peers. However, research on how to support children’s collaboration effectively is limited and findings in this area have been inconsistent.

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Designing Effective Policy Responses

Understanding Unlicensed Early Childhood Education and Care Utilization in Canada

Understanding Unlicensed Early Childhood Education and Care Utilization in Canada

This study examined early childhood education and care (ECEC) utilization in Canada,
focusing on use of unlicensed home child care (HCC) from an equity perspective. Data from the 2011 cycle of the General Social Survey (GSS) were used. Across Canada, parent responses reveal that 16.6% of children between the age of 12 months and entry to school were in unlicensed HCC.

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Child care policy and child care burden

Child care policy and child care burden

The policy feedback literature highlights that the design of public policies can affect recipients’ experience of those policies and programs. In this paper, we examine the largely unexplored distributional implications of market-based early childhood education and care (ECEC) services.

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Charting the Rise of School Choice across Canadian Provinces

Charting the Rise of School Choice across Canadian Provinces

This article introduces and discusses the findings of the Canada School Choice Policy Index (CSCPI). This is the first index of its kind that measures the development of school choice policies across the Canadian provinces from 1980 to 2020 using eight unique indicators of choice.

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