"Hours of Opportunity" Study: A Video Commentary

Hours of Opportunity, published by the RAND Corporation and commissioned by The Wallace Foundation, examines a new “systems” approach to building better, more accessible out-of-school time programming for city children and teens.

Nancy Devine, who directs Wallace’s out-of-school time initiative, discusses:

Why Wallace commissioned the RAND research
(2 minutes)
How “cities can do it,” that is, undertake the work of building out-of-school time systems (1 minute)

Jennifer Sloan McCombs, co-author of Hours of Opportunity, talks about:

Why out-of-school time is important to kids and how city systems can boost It (1 minute)
How out-of-school time systems work to end the fragmentation of out-of-school time services (1 minute)
What the RAND study looked at and found (1 minute)
The mayor’s pivotal role in building out-of-school time systems (1 minute)
How and Why RAND examined out-of-school time data systems (1 minute)
The payoffs of using data (1 minute)
How data can improve the quality of out-of-school time services (1 minute)