Private commodity or public good?

An exploration of the effect of corporate structure on ...

Abstract: This article explores parental and child care staff perceptions of quality across alternative child care governance structures in Australia. Twen ...

Early child learning and care in Canada: Who rules? Who...

Description:The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the most appropriate framework fordeveloping and sustaining a pan-Canadian early child ...

Non-profit child care sector superior to commercial sec...

Excerpts:Public financing is best directed to not-for-profit child-care systems, which are superior to commercial child care models. Yet, the Frontier Cent ...

What do we mean by non-profit auspice?

Description:Auspice — who owns and operates child care — is one of the factors that makes a difference to the qualityof early learning and care service ...

Towards a predictive model of quality in Canadian child...

Abstract: This paper reports on the design, methodology, and results of a study of quality in 326 classrooms in 239 Canadian child care centers. This study ...

Research on ratios, group size, and staff qualification...

Description: This research report puts together, in one volume, reports of two separate but linked projects on child:adult ratios in early years and childc ...

International perspectives on quality in mixed economie...

Description: In October of 2008 Helen Penn presented a paper entitled ‘International perspectives on quality in mixed economies of childcare’ at a conf ...

Surplus or profit: the case of public funding for priva...

Description:On Monday 3 December 2007 the first seminar was held in the ICMEC international seminar series. An invited audience of delegates from the priva ...

For-profit child care: Past, present and future

Abstract: After many years of relative political inattention in Canada, the federal government has committed to developing a national early learning and ch ...

Public policy context of child care: The issue of auspi...

Description:Three contextual (structural) variables have a demonstrated impact on the quality of child care programs. These factors are: regulation, fundin ...

An economic perspective on the current and future role ...

For-profit/nonprofit differences in center-based child ...

Abstract: In secondary analyses of National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development data, multipl ...

Child care quality in Australia

ABC Learning Centres. A case study of Australia's large...

An examination of childcare teachers in for-profit and ...

Abstract: Perceptions of childcare teachers in for-profit and non-profit centers were examined. Previous research indicates that childcare teachers earn ...

Hidden fragility

La qualité, ca compte!

Quality counts

Abstract: In this edition of Choices, Christa Japel, Richard Tremblay, and Sylvana Côté examine the unique childcare program in Quebec and evaluate it ...

The quality gap