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Bruce Hurst; Kylie Brannelly; Jennifer Cartmel – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2023
Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) provides play, leisure, care and education for significant numbers of Australian children. As government has become increasingly involved in the regulation of OSHC, the sector has become increasingly professionalised. OSHC practitioners are active participants in quality improvement processes and increasingly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, After School Programs, Staff Development, Employment Qualifications
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Rulf Fountain, Alyssa; Gamse, Beth; Velez, Melissa – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
Academic achievement in the nation's lowest performing schools is troubling. Despite improvements in students' overall academic achievement over the past few decades, proficiency gaps in reading and mathematics remain across income, racial, and ethnic groups. One promising strategy for reducing achievement gaps is to expand the school day, often…
Descriptors: Extended School Day, Middle Schools, Enrichment Activities, Access to Education
Marek, Stephanie; Goldfinger, Shandra; Mayer, Emily; Faude, Sarah; Muncey, Donna; Hallberg, Kelly; Kistner, Alexandra; Haynes, Erin; Macdonald, Kellie – American Institutes for Research, 2016
Expanded learning time (ELT) is a practice that entails increasing the length of the school day for all students, with the goal of improving student outcomes, especially in low-performing schools. Boston Public Schools (BPS) has been implementing ELT as an improvement strategy in low-performing schools since 2006. In 2015 the district drastically…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Extended School Day, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
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Kielblock, Stephan – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2015
During the past decade, many schools in Germany have added extracurricular time to their regular curricular classes. This raises questions about the successful implementation of extracurricular programs and what makes them effective. The aim of this study is to illuminate the connection between these two questions. The theoretical and conceptual…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Extracurricular Activities, Student Attitudes
Fountain, Alyssa Rulf; Velez, Melissa; Gamse, Beth – Abt Associates, 2018
The vast majority of American students are neither prepared nor sufficiently engaged to become science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-literate citizens or innovative STEM professionals (National Research Council, 2007; Carnegie Corporation and the Institute for Advanced Study, 2009; National Science Board [NSB], 2010; President's…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Achievement Gap, Volunteers, Apprenticeships
Marek, Stephanie; Faude, Sarah; Muncey, Donna; Kistner, Alexandra; Píriz, Dionisio García; Williams, Ryan; Therriault, Susan – American Institutes for Research, 2017
Expanded learning time (ELT) is a practice that entails increasing the length of the school day for all students, with the goal of improving student outcomes, especially in low-performing schools. Boston Public Schools (BPS) has been implementing ELT as an improvement strategy in low-performing schools since 2006. In 2015 the district drastically…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Extended School Day, Elementary Schools, Program Implementation
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Rulf Fountain, Alyssa; Gamse, Beth – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Expanded Learning Time (ELT) is seen as one promising approach for improving academic achievement, particularly in the nation's chronically low-performing schools. Since 1995, Citizen Schools (CS) has developed and supported the implementation of its own ELT model. The CS ELT model uses an additional shift of educators and community volunteers to…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Fidelity, Measurement Techniques, Benchmarking
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Tamir, Emanuel; Shaked, Lea – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
The research investigated the way in which school administrations implement resources provided by Israel's "Courage to Change" reform. The uniqueness of this reform stems from the fact that the allocated resources come in the form of "weekly instruction time" rather than finance, and the school management needs to decide how to…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Program Implementation, Educational Change, School Administration
Boulay, Beth; Gamse, Beth; Checkoway, Amy; Maree, Kenyon; Fox, Lindsay – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) has supported a multi-year study of the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative to learn about the process and impact of ELT. Abt Associates Inc. is conducting this research. The study has two components: 1) a planning and implementation component that explores the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Day, Extended School Year, Program Implementation
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Folsom, Jessica Sidler; Osborne-Lampkin, La'Tara; Cooley, Stephan; Smith, Kevin – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2017
Since the 2012/13 school year Florida law has required the 100 lowest performing elementary schools in reading to extend the school day by one hour to provide supplemental reading instruction. In 2014 the law was broadened to include the 300 elementary schools with the lowest reading performance. A previous study of the state's first two cohorts…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Extended School Day, School Policy, Low Achievement
Farbman, David A.; Goldberg, David J.; Miller, Tiffany D. – Center for American Progress, 2014
With the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards, public education in the United States is poised to take a major step forward in readying the next generation of Americans for success in higher education and the workforce. Gaining a realistic understanding of students' performance levels, meeting students where they currently are,…
Descriptors: School Schedules, State Standards, Program Implementation, Extended School Day
McMurrer, Jennifer; Frizzell, Matthew; Yoshioka, Nanami – Center on Education Policy, 2015
Many low-performing schools across the nation have increased learning time in response to federal requirements for the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. The conditions governing federal waivers of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) also require certain schools to redesign the school day, week, or year to include additional…
Descriptors: Extended School Day, Extended School Year, Educational Improvement, Grants
Sinclair, Beth; Russell, Christina A.; McCann, Colleen; Hildreth, Jeanine L. – ExpandED Schools, 2014
Policy Studies Associates (PSA) is conducting a five-year evaluation of the implementation and impact of the national demonstration of a model for expanded learning time developed by "The After-School Corporation" (TASC). This model, called "ExpandED Schools," aims to transform the educational experiences of students in ways…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Partnerships in Education, Individualized Instruction
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Martins, Jorge; Vale, Ana; Mouraz, Ana – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
Over the past decade, several European countries have implemented policies and programmes leading to the introduction of the concept of "all-day schooling," thus acknowledging the need to guarantee the guard of all children and to enhance equal opportunities of success at school. The Portuguese Ministry of Education created and funded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Enrichment Activities, Curriculum Enrichment
Checkoway, Amy; Gamse, Beth; Velez, Melissa; Caven, Meghan; de la Cruz, Rodolfo; Donoghue, Nathaniel; Kliorys, Kristina; Linkow, Tamara; Luck, Rachel; Sahni, Sarah; Woodford, Michelle – Abt Associates, 2012
The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative was established in 2005 with planning grants that allowed a limited number of schools to explore a redesign of their respective schedules and add time to their day or year. Participating schools are required to expand learning time by at least 300 hours per academic year to improve student…
Descriptors: Extended School Day, Extended School Year, Program Implementation, School Schedules
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