After-school programs must engage interests, parents, students say

Education Week
Catherine Gewertz
November 24, 2004

Studies show after-school programs aren’t always all about academics. Academics do play a part, but athletics and the arts are also important to the parents and children surveyed. Joyce Shortt, co-director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, says that the diversity of needs calls for strong local leadership in after school programs; “We need community approaches that coordinate with what’s already available, identify the gaps of what’s needed, and help to address those gaps.”

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