Contents

• 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?

1. Sizing Things Up: What Parents, Teachers and Students Think About Large and Small High Schools, Public Agenda 2002, p. 45. Based on a national mail survey of 920 public high school teachers and national telephone surveys of 801 parents of children in public high schools and 1,008 public high school students.

2. Caring for Your School-Aged Child: 5-12, American Academy of Pediatrics 1999.

3. Sizing Things Up: What Parents, Teachers and Students Think About Large and Small High Schools, Public Agenda 2002, p. 43.

4. A Lot Easier Said Than Done: Parents Talk about Raising Children in Today’s America, Public Agenda 2002, p. 9. Based on a national telephone survey of 1,607 parents or guardians of children aged 5 to 17.

5. Partnership for a Drug-Free America/Robert Wood Johnson Survey 1999. Based on telephone interviews of 6,529 teens in grades 7-12.

6. “After Cuts, Yonkers Prepares for School with Few Extras,” The New York Times 7 Sep 2004.

7. “Out of Money, Harlem Ballet School Closes,” The New York Times 17 Oct 2004.

8. “Some High School Students Will Pay for After-School Activities,” The Oregonian 20 Jul 2004.

9. When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, Mathematica Policy Research 2003.

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