Coordinating After-School Resources

How the after-school work of schools, nonprofits, parks and other organizations can be coordinated to create better, more accessible programming citywide.

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Municipal Leadership for Afterschool: Citywide Approaches Spreading Across the Country ›
October 2011
The National League of Cities identifies and looks in detail at 27 U.S. cities with advanced efforts to coordinate after-school programming.
Collecting and Using Information to Strengthen Citywide Out-of-School Time Systems ›
August 2011
The National League of Cities offers practical guidance to city leaders using data to improve after-school programming throughout cities.
AfterZone: Outcomes for Youth Participating in Providence’s After-School System ›
August 2011
One of the first rigorous evaluations of a citywide after-school initiative finds that the effort, in Providence, produced educational benefits for children.
Making Summer Count: How Summer Programs Can Boost Children’s Learning ›
June 2011
(June 2011) Low-income students suffer large learning setbacks over summer vacation, but this major RAND report finds evidence that good programs can ease the problem.
Think Outside the Clock: Planners Link After-School Programs to Classroom Curriculum ›
April 2011
(April 2011) An article describes citywide efforts to make good after-school programs more accessible and, in some cases, link them to classroom learning.
Hours of Opportunity: Lessons from Five Cities on Building Systems to Improve After-School, Summer, and Other Out-of-School-Time Programs (Volumes I, II and III) ›
October 2010
(October 2010) A major RAND report finds promise and challenges in a new citywide approach to improving the quality and accessibility of after-school programs.
Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time ›
April 2010
(April 2010) A six-city study finds key traits of high-quality teen after-school programs that attract – and retain – students.
AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs ›
April 2010
(April 2010) A study finds notable successes and some challenges in an effort to build after-school programming for middle school kids in Providence, Rhode Island.
Strengthening Partnerships and Building Public Will for
Out-of-School Time Programs ›
March 2010
(March 2010) This guide shows how city leaders nationwide have gotten community institutions to work together to improve after-school, summer and other out-of-school time programming.
Evidence of Program Quality and Youth Outcomes in the DYCD
Out-of-School Time Initiative: Report on the Initiative’s First Three Years ›
September 2009
This final report in a three-year evaluation of New York City’s far-reaching effort to improve after-school opportunities finds both successes and challenges.

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