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Poll: Most Voters Elect to Support After-School

A majority of likely voters support increasing funds for after-school program, according to a new poll commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance, which...

Finding Resources to Support Mentoring Programs and Services for Youth

The Finance Project 32 pages. Free. This brief explores three strategies for financing and sustaining mentoring programs and services: building partnerships with businesses...

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College is for Poor Kids

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Growing Pains

Thanks to an ambitious initiative passed by its voters, California is the nation’s largest incubator of after-school programming. But the state’s...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

2008 Lights On After School

After-school snack? No, the children don’t usually sample the pickle juice at the Eureka Kids after-school program in Eureka Springs, Ark. But...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Banned Books, Chapter 2

WASHINGTON POST Conservative Christian students and parents recently gathered outside a Virginia high school to protest the banning of anti-homosexual books they...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Fred Long

Fred Long Youth Leader IIUCAN (Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network)Chicago(773) 588-0180http://www.ucanchicago.org Age: 29 Salary: $31,000 About UCAN: The organization is a multiservice nonprofit...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Been There, Survived That: Getting Through Freshman Year of High School

Edited by Karen MacklinZest Books96 pages. $9.95. Four survivors of the freshman minefield offer social, academic and practical tips. In “Learn How...

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The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Findings After the First Year of Implementation

This mid-way evaluation study examines whether two structured, academic-focused after-school programs in reading and math could lead to better academic outcomes for...

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Public Funding for Comprehensive After-School Programs, 1998-2008

NYU scholars calculated how much the city, state and federal governments spent on after-school programs in New York City from 1998 to...

Overcoming Volunteers’ Reluctance to Report Abuse

Beefed-up training and easy reporting systems are the keys. Because of the close ties they develop with youths, volunteer mentors and tutors...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Bring After-School Networks To Scale

80,000 smiles: That’s how many youth were served last year by the city’s Out of School Time network. Photo: Harlem RBI The...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Smaller, Stricter School Means More Learning

LA Youth, Los Angeles I like my school. It’s strict, but the classes are small. We have new books with no marks...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Censorship Was My Best Journalism Teacher

LA Youth, Los Angeles Dissatisfied with my journalism class in school, I decided to start a journalism club instead. I dreamed that...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Staying After School in College

In a mostly glowing initial review of a certificate program for after-school workers in New York City lies a dash of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Toolkit Review: Afterschool Training

Afterschool TrainingThe National Partnership for Quality Afterschool LearningFree(800) 476-6861, http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits The award-winning The toolkit includes ideas for activities in the arts …...

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Expanded Learning Time Gains

A new study shows that expanded learning time (ELT) programs are increasing across the country, but so far these extensions of the...

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School Enrollment in the United States: 2006

More students were in college and high school and fewer were in nursery school, kindergarten and elementary school in the United States...

Feedback Invited on New After-School Standards

The Council on Accreditation (COA) – an independent organization based in New York – last month released quality standards for after-school programs...

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