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Title:

The Impact of Afterschool Programs: Interpreting the Results of Four Recent Evaluations

Sponsor:

William T. Grant Foundation

Release Date:

January 2004

Summary:

A technical analysis of four recent afterschool evaluations. Includes recommendations for designing future evaluations and a discussion of reasonable expectations.

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Title:

The Effectiveness of Out-Of-School-Time Strategies in Assisting Low-Achieving Students in Reading and Mathematics: A Research Synthesis

Sponsor:

McREL (Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning)

Release Date:

December 2003

Summary:

A quantitative analysis of 56 studies of after-school and summer programs found these programs have a small, though statistically significant positive impact on student achievement in reading and mathematics.

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Title:

Critical Hours: Afterschool Programs and Educational Success

Sponsor:

Nellie Mae Education Foundation

Release Date:

June 2003

Summary:

Synthesizes existing studies on afterschool and concludes that afterschool programs make a valuable contribution to academic achievement and the overall development of participants.

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Title:

21st Century Literacy Survey

Sponsor:

AOL Time Warner Foundation

Release Date:

June 2003

Summary:

Results from survey designed to determine skills teens need for the 21st Century and where and how they should acquire them.

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Title:

After-School Programs in Cities Across the United States Survey Report

Sponsor:

The United States Conference of Mayors

Release Date:

January 2003

Summary:

Results from survey designed to provide a baseline of information on current after-school programming.

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Title:

The Costs and Benefits of Afterschool Programs: The Estimated Effects of the After School Education and Safety Act of 2002

Sponsor:

Rose Institute

Release Date:

September 2002

Summary:

Examines research on the cost and benefit of afterschool programs in relation to Proposition 49, the After School Education and Safety Act

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Title:

Extended Learning Opportunities in Fostering Academic Achievement: Selected School Profiles

Sponsor:

Council of Chief State School Officers

Release Date:

2002

Summary:

The five profiles developed out of the Council's extensive research on extended learning programs in high-performing, high poverty schools.

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Title:

The RAND Studies

Sponsor:

Foundations, Inc.

Release Date:

December 2002

Summary:

Annual independent evaluations of Foundations' afterschool programs' impact on participants' academic skills.

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Title:

America's After-School Choice: The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime Or Youth Enrichment and Achievement

Sponsor:

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids

Release Date:

November 2000

Summary:

A report on the impact of afterschool programs on juvenile crime rates; synthesis of key findings from other national organization and government agency studies of afterschool impact.

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Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Fall 1995

Sponsor:

U.S. Census Bureau (U.S. Department of Commerce)

Release Date:

October 2000

Summary:

For the first time in a Census Bureau child-care report, data are presented on arrangements used while parents are not at work or in school. Statistics indicate at least seven million "latchkey" kids.

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Title:

Child-Care Patterns for School-Age Children with Employed Mothers

Sponsor:

The Urban Institute

Release Date:

September 2000

Summary:

An investigation of the different types of child care arrangements, including unsupervised "self-care" that has school-age children home alone after school without supervision or structured activities.

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Title:

21st Century Community Learning Centers: Providing Quality Afterschool Learning Opportunities for America's Families

Sponsor:

U.S. Department of Education

Release Date:

September 2000

Summary:

Report of results as of April 2000 from 21st CCLC afterschool program grantees.

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www.ed.gov/pubs or call 1-800-USA-LEARN

Title:

A DECADE OF RESULTS: The Impact of the LA's BEST After School Enrichment Program on Subsequent Student Achievement and Performance

Sponsor:

LA's BEST and the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation

Release Date:

June 2000

Summary:

A longitudinal study report and a synthesis of research begun in 1990.

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Title:

Evaluation of California's After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnerships Program: 1999 - 2000

Sponsor:

Department of Education, University of California at Irvine

Release Date:

May 2001

Summary:

A preliminary summary of statewide and local evaluations conducted during year one of California's statewide afterschool program. The outcome data show positive impacts on participating students' acheivement, attendance, attitudes and behavior.

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Title:

Accountability for After-School Care: Devising Standards and Measuring Adherence to Them

Sponsor:

RAND

Release Date:

2001

Summary:

RAND researchers comprehensively reviewed the literature on after-school care and derived a set of 18 good management practices associated with quality care. RAND developed a protocol to measure these practices and used it to see how one California organization adheres to these practices. This protocol is available for use by other after-school programs to assess their own adherence to the practices.

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