News and events

22.05.24. EQOP PI Henrik Daae Zachrisson and Greg Duncan, Distinguished professor at University of California Irvine, will give keynotes at a closed workshop for the OECD ECEC network: “Long-term equity and inclusion in early childhood education and care”

16.04.2024: Henrik Daae Zachrisson participates in a panel at Boston College on the topic Helping Children Thrive in an Age of Uncertainty

05.04.2024: EQOP PI Henrik Daae Zachrisson interviewed about consequences of lower participation rates in ECEC in more disadvantaged areas in Oslo. 

17.11.23 & 21.11.23. EQOP team member Nina Drange talks about improving opportunities for children in low income families for municipalities in the county of Vestfold and Telemark and at the annual conference for the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development.

05.11.23: Henrik Zachrisson er intervjuet nede i saken: Fattigdom går i arv. Forskerne mener de vet hva som kan bryte sirkelen. (in Norwegian)

24.10.23: Henrik Zachrisson er med på enda en kronikk, i anledning rapporten fra «Ekspertgruppa om barn i fattige familier» - denne gangen i NHH Bulletin: BARNETRYGDEN BØR ØKES – OG SKATTLEGGES (in Norwegian)

23.10.23: Henrik Zachrisson og de andre medlemmene i «Ekspertgruppa om barn i fattige familier» har ett nytt innlegg i Dagens Næringsliv: «Dyrt og urealistisk å bekjempe fattigdom med økt barnetrygd – uten å skattlegge den» (in Norwegian)

17.10.23: Henrik Daae Zachrisson and Nina Drange have been members of the government appointed expert group on eliviating  consequences of childhood poverty. The report was given to the Minister of Child and Family Affairs, Kjersti Toppe, by the head of the expert group, Mari Rege. You can read a summary of the recommendations here (in Norwegian).

29.09.23: Henrik Daae Zachrisson presents at the meeting of the Society for research on Educational Effectiveness: Are There Adverse Sleeper-Effects of Universal Early Education on Behavior in Third Grade?

15.08.23: EQOP member Astrid Sandsør in UiOs podcast about why school is unable to level out differences between children

15-16.06.23: Nicolai Borgen presents at Genetics and Social Science Conference, Oslo, For whom neighborhoods matter: Heterogeneous effects of neighborhood on child achievement. Borgen, Zachrisson, Cheesman, Lyngstad, Ystrøm. Astrid Sandsør is discussant at the conference.

15.06.23 EQOP PI Henrik Daae Zachrisson talks about educational equality at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (with comments from EQOP team members Torkild Lyngstad and Nina Drange)—In Norwegian

24-26.05.23. Nicolai Borgen presents at International Sociological Association, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility, Paris, Conference presentation: Schools Equalizing or Exacerbating Inequality? Between-School Variation in the SES-Achievement Association — Nicolai Topstad Borgen, Astrid Sandsør, and Henrik Daae Zachrisson

01.05.23 EQOP Barn fra fattige familier ligger to og et halvt år etter barn fra rike familier på skolen

28.03.23 The EQOP team gives a seminar at Boston College Lynch School of Education, Mary E Walsh Center on Thriving Children and Youths (Hosted by Eric Dearing)

23-25.03.23 The EQOP team presents at the SRCD biannual conference in Salt Lake City, UT

17.01.23 EQOP team member Astrid Sandsør is appointed by the Norwegian Government to be part on the expert group on social inequality in education 

08.12.22 EQOP PI Henrik Daae Zachrisson talks about developmental pathways to exclusion at a Research Council of Norway research breakfast meeting—in Norwegian

EQOP Researcher Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør is appointed member of the Ministry of Education’s expert group on preventing social inequality in education

• 17.09.2022 Vil få ned sosiale forskjeller mellom barn - regjeringen.no 

EQOP PI Zachrisson participates in podcast about his important research studying the outcome of children who spend long days in daycare

• 07.09.2022 The Supporting Child Caregivers Podcast: 081 The SCC Pod - True or False: Long days in Daycare is Harmful to Young Children

EQOP-researchers on the national morning news 

• On Tuesday Nov 2, EQOP PI Henrik Daae Zachrisson talked about consequences of childhood poverty on the national morning news. Three days later, on Friday Nov 5, EQOP researcher Astrid Sandsør visited the same program, talking about uptake in upper secondary school. The morning news by the national broadcaster NRK covers both TV and radio news.

EQOP on Brookings

• On Thursday Nov 3, EQOP PI Henrik Daae Zachrisson and colleagues published a summary of resent research on brookings.edu, arguing for the benefits of funding early education. The piece was timely, as the US Congress is about to vote on Biden’s infrastructure bill in the coming days, a bill that will expand funding of preschool. 

EQOP PI Zachrisson talked about educational inequality—and how ECEC can mitigate it—at a public event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at UiO. The mayor of Oslo was present and provided comments.

• 02.11.2021: Public event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at UiO

EQOP PI Zachrisson participates in podcast about consequences of childhood poverty and the role of early education in mitigating these (in Norwegian)

• Podcast UiO 31.05.2021 Barnefattigdom i Norge - barnehagen er ett av tiltakene som hjelper

EQOP PI Zachrisson participates in podcast about consequences of poverty for schooling in Norway, and is also interviewed about this topic (both in Norwegian).