Education Week

After-School Programs Are Low on Staff, Leaving Students Unsupervised and Underserved

Unprecedented staffing shortages have plagued schools nationwide all year—and these issues haven’t spared after-school programs. Roughly three-quarters of after-school program providers who answered a ...
EdSurge

Can After-School Programs Help Children Recover From the Pandemic?

DETROIT — A fleet of vans and a bus picked up dozens of students and dropped them off at the Downtown Boxing Gym here on a chilly Monday afternoon in March. Inside the spacious facility, students ...
Education Week

High-Quality After-School Programs Tied to Test-Score Gains

Disadvantaged students who regularly attend top-notch after-school programs end up, after two years, academically far ahead of peers who spend more out-of-school time in unsupervised activities, ...
NPR

Pandemic aid for schools is ending soon. Many after-school programs may go with it

Fifth-grader Andreana Campbell and third-grader Kewon Wells are tending to a garden box after school at Eugene Field Elementary School in Tulsa, Okla. “I want to try this kale,” Kewon says, pointing ...
BND

Hundreds of metro-east students may lose after-school programs as funding runs out

When Charlotte McDaniel’s granddaughter Jadah, a 7-grader at Wyvetter Younge School of Excellence, strolled up to her one morning and offered to make breakfast, you would’ve thought McDaniel heard the ...
The Conversation

Campus sexual assault prevention programs could do more to prevent violence, even after a ...

Heather Hensman Kettrey received funding from the US Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women to conduct the research described in this article. Martie Thompson, Ph.D. has received ...