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Direct linkJournal of Staff Development, 2011
In recent years, growing numbers of policymakers, city officials, and educators have been eyeing the expanse of time outside the education prime time and asking a simple question: What can communities do to help children grow and learn after the school bell rings? The concern is that too many children and teens, especially the poor, are left to…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, After School Programs, School Buildings
Copeland, Margaret Leitch; Brunette, Libby; Gimilaro, Susan – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
Ten years ago when the first group of children aged out of the Applewood Learning Center's (Londonderry, New Hampshire) school-age child care program, parents asked the program to find a way to serve their young teenage children so that they would not be left home alone for the summer. The teens had friendships based on many years together in the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Summer Programs, Latchkey Children, Adolescents
Peer reviewedDimensions of Early Childhood, 1993
Discusses research on school-age child care programs and highlights three particularly significant issues: space constraints, staffing problems, and high summer enrollments. Discusses the place of school-age care in education reform and suggests that school-age care programs be modeled after the home rather than the school. (BB)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Ancillary School Services, Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers
