All posts tagged "out-of-school time and afterschool"

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  After-School Programs and Academics: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research

  Should after-school programs focus on academics, even to the point of becoming an extension of the regular school day? That’s the question...

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  A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College

  MDRC/Network on Transitions to Adulthood While freshmen in college benefit from extra counseling, financial aid and tutoring, the benefits last only slightly...

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  Building A Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College

  Youth Development Institute (YDI) YDI tracked 39 young people as they advanced from a earning a GED with the help of a...

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  Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation

  Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Released by the America’s Promise Alliance to help launch its Dropout Prevention campaign, this report provides...

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  After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What It Takes to Achieve It

  Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...

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  Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative

  Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...

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  America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20

  U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...

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  Choices, Changes and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era

  Center on Education Policy Nearly two-thirds of U.S. school districts report that since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during...

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  California’s Afterschool Expansion

  William T. Grant Foundation This very readable report, written by consultant and former journalist Joseph Ames, details how California implemented the largest...

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  America’s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy

  This report synthesizes five new studies of varying size and focus, all showing a strong correlation between quality educational child care and...

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  A Piece of the Puzzle: How States Can Use Education to Make Work Pay for Welfare Recipients

  As little as one semester of full-time training can result in a salary increase of as much as $10,000 for a former...

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  Community Counts: How Youth Organizations Matter for Youth Development

  This report is based on a study spanning 12 years, of 12-to-18-year-olds in urban and rural communities across the country, aimed at...