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Download full textColtin, Lillian – 1999
School-age children between the ages of 5 and 14 spend up to 80% of their time out of school. These hours represent an opportunity to help children grow and acquire important social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills and to help them develop lifelong interests. This time can also be used to provide support for the academic challenges faced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Education, After School Programs, Community Programs
Coltin, Lillian; McGuire, Kate – 1998
In 1994, the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund made a commitment to school-age care by launching the MOST Initiative--a $6.5 million, multi-year project aimed at systemic community-based change to improve the quality and availability of out-of-school time for children in three cities: Boston, Chicago, and Seattle. The MOST Initiative was…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Children, Community Involvement, Computer Mediated Communication
Coltin, Lillian – 2002
School-age children between the ages of 5 and 14 spend up to 80% of their time out of school. These hours represent an opportunity to help children grow and acquire important social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills and to help them develop lifelong interests. This time can also be used to provide support for the academic challenges faced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Education, After School Programs, Community Programs
