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Download full textAfterschool Alliance, 2020
The Afterschool Alliance's fourth edition of "America after 3PM" provides a detailed accounting of the circumstances and conditions of U.S. children during the hours of 3 to 6 p.m. and compares afterschool program participation and unmet demand statistics for 2020 with results from 2004, 2009, and 2014. It identifies trends in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Participation, Parent Attitudes, Satisfaction
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Direct linkSun, Xiaojun; Tian, Yuan; Zhang, Yongxin; Xie, Xiaochun; Heath, Melissa A.; Zhou, Zongkui – School Psychology International, 2015
With China's rapidly developing economy and increasing urbanization, many adults from rural areas migrate to urban areas for better paid jobs. A side effect of this migration is that parents frequently leave their children behind (left-behind children). This research investigated left-behind children's and non-left-behind children's psychological,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural to Urban Migration, Migrants, Children
Shumow, Lee; Smith, Thomas J.; Smith, M. Cecil – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
This study examines characteristics of young adolescents who experience self-care, associations between self-care and academic achievement, and whether associations of self-care with academic adjustment vary by child, family, or community characteristics. Using data from the nationally representative 1999 National Household Education Survey,…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Preadolescents, After School Programs, Relationship
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
Venter, Elza; Rambau, Eunice – South African Journal of Education, 2011
Self care is one of the options for parents in need of after school care for their children. In certain studies self care is seen as detrimental to development and academic performance, but in other studies children do fairly well notwithstanding their latchkey situation--self care could teach young people a sense of personal responsibility and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Academic Achievement, Latchkey Children, Low Income
Liang, Wenyan; Hou, Longlong; Chen, Wentao – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
During China's economic transformation, much of the rural population migrated to urban areas in search of employment opportunities. "Left-behind children" are the product of this phenomenon and need significant attention. Our study adopted elementary school students in Sichuan province as the subjects. After carefully studying their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns, Rural Sociology
Lord, Heather; Mahoney, Joseph L. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
This longitudinal study evaluated associations among official rates of neighborhood crime, academic performance, and aggression in a sample of 581 children in 1st-3rd grade (6.3-10.6 years old). It was hypothesized that the influence of crime depends on children's unsupervised exposure to the neighborhood context through self-care. Average weekly…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, School Activities, Crime, Low Achievement
Booth, Margaret Zoller – International Journal of Educational Development, 2003
This paper constitutes a major part of the third phase of a longitudinal study in Swaziland investigating the short- and long-term effects of parental absence on primary children's school achievement. In 1998, 42 of the original sample of 80 students who entered grade one in 1990 were found remaining in the educational system but varied in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Longitudinal Studies, Social Influences
