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Parsad, Basmat; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
How school-age children spend their time after school is a topic of interest among educators, policymakers, researchers, and parents. Many parents choose to have their children attend after-school programs, which may provide services such as academic instruction, cultural enrichment, safe places to stay, and adult supervision for children. This…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Child Care
Afterschool Alliance, 2009
In 2004, the Afterschool Alliance and the JCPenney Afterschool Fund commissioned the most in-depth study ever to examine how America's kids spend their after school hours--"America After 3PM". In spring 2009, the Afterschool Alliance and the JCPenney Afterschool Fund again worked with RTi to update the study to determine how things have…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, After School Programs, National Surveys, Educational Trends
Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1934
The rapid growth of high school clubs, the important educational functions in which they engage, and the close relationship they bear to the work of the school have given them a place of first importance among the school organizations carrying on extracurricular activities. Such clubs are a means of closing up the educational gap resulting from…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Clubs, High Schools, Junior High Schools