"Hours of Opportunity" Study: A Video Commentary

Commentaries from a study co-author as well as from Wallace's director of out-of-school time initiatives, October 2010

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October 21, 2010

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Nancy Devine on how “cities can do it,” that is, undertake the work of building out-of-school time systems:
Nancy Devine on why Wallace commissioned the RAND research:
Jennifer Sloan McCombs on how data can improve the quality of out-of-school time services:
Jennifer Sloan McCombs on why out-of-school time is important to kids and how city systems can boost It:
Jennifer Sloan McCombs on the mayor’s pivotal role in building out-of-school time systems:
Jennifer Sloan McCombs on what the RAND study looked at and found:
Jennifer Sloan McCombs on the payoffs of using data :
Jennifer Sloan McCombs on how and why RAND examined out-of-school time data :
Jennifer Sloan McCombs on How out-of-school time systems work to end the fragmentation of out-of-school time services:
Webinar Hours of Opportunity Insights from Cities' Efforts to Build Citywide Afterschool Systems :

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 directs Wallace's out-of-school time initiative.

Jennifer Sloan McCombs is the co-author of Hours of Opportunity.

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