Considers the career and accomplishments of Colonel Wayland Parker, a late-19th-century educator and reformer. Parker worked to establish art education as an essential part of every school's curriculum. He proposed integrating art into all of the daily subjects and recommended the establishment of studio and workshop spaces. (MJP)

This booklet provides schools with ideas on how they can use their after-school programs in new and effective ways to promote student achievement and meet the needs of their students and community. It provides suggestions on: reading in after-school programs; mathematics in after-school programs; think college early in after-school programs;…