The Latest Breaking News from Early Childhood Education

South Australia’s royal commission into early childhood education led by Julia Gillard has released an interim report. The key recommendation is preschool for all three-year-olds (in a move similar to other states). But the report notes one of the critical considerations around this change will be the early education workforce.

A knowledge and research collective at Humber College has been working to create, teach and evaluate a new course in the early childhood education program, Two-Eyed Land-Based Play and Co-Learning.

For two weeks at a time, live-in educators are supporting young children in rural and remote families through "playing and learning", filling the gap in early childhood education services.

Pressure on working parents has been building for a long time, with daycare costs increasing as places become more scarce. Two recent reports clearly illustrate the dysfunctional nature of England’s system of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).

Education union and ministry are also hot on Rainbow Corner, owner of home-based care operation Porse.

About 100 early childhood experts are meeting in Canberra today for a national summit on children who are five and under.

As people across Canada begin to understand the implications of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care program, public conversations often centre on the economic benefits of getting children back into quality child care, and their parents or guardians back into a robust Canadian economy.

The government has asked the Productivity Commission to look at how to make early childhood education more affordable and available.

CHICAGO — In his second inaugural address in January, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker promised to “make preschool available to every family throughout the state” — a feat that will require solutions to staffing shortfalls, school capacity limitations and an increase to the state’s nearly $600 million early childhood education block…

A new federal government review shows just how critical the emotional and educational experiences of early childhood education are for children's futures.

The decision about whether to send a child to school “early” or “hold them back” can be a tortuous one for families who have a child born in the first half of the year.