After school programs "reap a host of positive benefits." (Harvard report on large scale studies.)

[pnwmom]

These DT people lie. They all lie, all the time.

http://www.sedl.org/pubs/sedl-letter/v20n02/afterschool_findings.html

Published in SEDL Letter Volume XX, Number 2, August 2008, Afterschool, Family, and Community
A recent study showed significant gains in math test scores for students who participated in high-quality afterschool programs.
In February, the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) published After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What It Takes to Achieve It (Little, Wimer, & Weiss, 2008), a brief that summarizes 10 years of research on afterschool programs and discusses implications for the future. Featured in the brief are studies that evaluate large afterschool programs with experimental or quasi-experimental designs. The authors, Priscilla M. D. Little, Christopher B. Wimer, and Heather B. Weiss, drew on those evaluations to address two primary questions: 1) Does participation in after school programs make a difference, and, if so, 2) What conditions appear to be necessary to achieve positive results? In this article, we summarize their findings and discuss the characteristics of programs leading to positive student outcomes.

Does participation in afterschool programs make a difference?
According to Little, Wimer, and Weiss,

The short answer is yes. . . .A decade of research and evaluation studies, as well as large-scale, rigorously conducted syntheses looking across many research and evaluation studies, confirms that children and youth who participate in after school programs can reap a host of positive benefits in a number of interrelated outcome areas—academic, social/emotional, prevention, and health and wellness. (2008, p. 2)

Academic Achievement

Afterschool programs can have an impact on academic achievement. Improved test scores are reported in evaluations of The After-School Corporation (TASC) programs in New York City (Reisner, White, Birmingham, & Welsh, 2001; White, Reisner, Welsh, & Russell, 2001) and in Foundations, Inc. elementary school programs (Klein & Bolus, 2002). A more recent longitudinal study showed significant gains in math test scores for elementary and middle-school students who participated in high-quality afterschool programs (Vandell, Reisner, & Pierce, 2007), and a meta-analysis of 35 studies of at-risk youth found that out-of-school time programs had a positive effect on reading and math achievement (Lauer, Akiba, Wilkerson, Apthorp, Snow, & Martin-Glenn, 2006).

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[MaeScott]

1. I ran an after school program for years..

...funded in part by a Federal 21st Century Community Leaning grant. Dare to Care provided HOT meals for the kids when the school bus dropped them off at our door. I can't begin to tell you how much the kids benefited from having someone go over and check homework, eating a nutritious meal, having activities that widened their personal reference frame of thinking, access to exercise/sports ...I could go on and on. I also remember seeing "Sergio" having a good time and then he wasn't there anymore..he and his family had been deported back to Mexico. The kids were so sad at that. Bottom line, kids weren't in the streets getting into trouble. But no, we can't have beneficial things, tax cuts! Defense spending!

[caraher]

2. Thanks for doing the research

But it was patently clear from the beginning that the assertions about all the programs the Trump lackeys are bashing were never based on facts. Pretty much everything they do is based on fantasies and outright lies. And Trump's supporters simply do not care.

[TNNurse]

3. But this does not give more tax cuts for the rich so where is the benefit?

That is GOP thinking?

[world wide wally]

4. This sounds like icky sciencey stuff