Contents

All Work and No Play?

• Heeding the Voices of Consumers by M. Christine DeVita
• Executive Summary
• Finding One: What Kids Do When They’re Not in School
• Finding Two: No Particular Place to Go
• Finding Three: The Haves and the Have-Nots
• Finding Four: More Time on Task?
• Finding Five: Where Parents and Kids Differ
• Afterword
• Endnotes
• Methodology
• Complete Survey Results for Students
• Complete Survey Results for Parents
• About The Wallace Foundation and Public Agenda
• Related Public Agenda Publications

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 All Work and No Play?

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Acknowledgements

The authors of All Work and No Play? would like to thank the following people for their support and assistance during the preparation of this report:

Our partners at The Wallace Foundation—M. Christine DeVita, Nancy Devine, Rebecca Edwards, Lucas Bernays Held, Lee Mitgang, Sheila Murphy and, especially, Ed Pauly and Shao-Chee Sim—for offering us the opportunity to conduct this research and for providing the freedom to explore the issues without constraint or bias;

Todd Andrews, Martine Benarroch, Paul Bucci, Margaret Clancy, Leor Farkas, Nick Feurey and Meghan Maloney for their indispensable input on the questionnaire;

Renee Dailey, Kay Lawson, Shana McKay Wortham, Leslie Rennie-Hill and Linda Rich for their assistance in arranging and recruiting participants for the focus groups;

Beth Syat, our former colleague, for her indefatigable efforts to keep the process moving forward in the beginning stages of this research;

Claudia Feurey, Public Agenda’s Vice President for Communications and External Relations, and her colleague Michael Hamill Remaley, Director of Communications, for bringing our work to the attention of a broad audience;

Scott Bittle, Nancy Cunningham and David White—Public Agenda’s Online Department—for producing a distinctive and highly informative online version of this report;

Daniel Yankelovich, who joined Cyrus Vance more than two decades ago to found Public Agenda. Dan’s thinking on public opinion remains at the core of our work;

And Public Agenda President Ruth A. Wooden for her vision, insight and guidance.

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