Due to working parents, unsafe home conditions, and mass-media pressures, schools are becoming increasingly involved with providing child care for school-age children. While afterschool care poses a number of design, funding, and equity problems, schools and communities can resolve them to the great benefit of the children served. (MLH)

By lengthening school days and moving to a four-day school week, the Cimarron (New Mexico) School District not only saved energy and transportation costs but also won teacher, student, and parent approval and saw student scores rise on national standardized tests. (RW)

Describes seven features of effective summer schools from recent Southern Regional Education Board report with examples of state legislation in support of each of these features. For example, summer school should be an integral part of a year-round program of extra time and extra help. Includes description of relevant Kentucky, California,…

Discusses the disparity in academic achievement between African American males and males and females from other ethnic groups, recommending after school programs to provide services for addressing and decreasing these disparities. Notes policy issues affecting the targeted population, presents four programs that have successfully improved academic…

Schools of tomorrow will be completely different physically and operationally. The author of this article states that we cannot tolerate the current high failure rates in terms of graduation and possession of the competencies needed to function successfully as citizens in a democracy, productively as workers and heuristically as learners. He lists…

This article describes a before- and after-school day care program for elementary school children that has been operating in Arlington, Virginia since 1969. After a discussion of the need for child care before and after school hours, five areas of operation of the Extended Day Program in the Arlington Public Schools are considered: (1) funding;…

The Ukiah (California) school board offers extended day care in six elementary schools. The program meets the needs of employed parents and has helped maintain enrollment levels in the schools. Highlights from a parent handbook are listed along with ordering directions. (MLF)

The 2000 and 2003 international studies of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) among all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries presented disappointing results for Germany's fifteen-year-old students' reading skills. These studies pointed out two necessities for future reform: to extend the…

This report describes the work of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning, created by Congress in June 1991 to examine the quality and adequacy of the time American students spend on study and learning. The report provides biographical profiles of the nine Commission members and outlines the topics that have been or will be…

A study was conducted to provide guidelines for the military and civilian communities to aid in establishment of quality extended-day child care programs. Questions addressed in a review of the literature included the following: (1) Is extended-day child care needed in the United States for both military and civilian populations? (2) Is quality…

Changes in family life styles, particularly the increase in single-parent families, can affect children's behavior in school. Apparently, teenagers are able to cope more successfully with the conflict of loyalties and demands of their parents' divorce than are younger children. Educators designing support systems to provide families with…

A description is given of a parent education program and a student extended-day program in a multiethnic elementary school. Most of the teachers in the adult program are regular teachers at the school; however, some parents are recruited for teaching courses in areas where they are competent--e.g., a Spanish-speaking parent conducting a course in…

The Ohio County schools in Wheeling, West Virginia are identifying high-risk kindergarten children and enrolling them in an all-day kindergarten program. A pilot study showed that the additional instructional time can help these children overcome patterns of failure. (TE).

Outlines the development of the Kramer Model, a project developed in the Little Rock School District (Arkansas). It includes an early childhood and elementary program housed in the same building that is an "extended day school". (MD)

Phillips Extended Day Magnet in Raleigh, North Carolina was licensed in 1977 as an after-school day-care facility for elementary children in grades K-5. This article looks at the goals, philosophy, design and evaluation of the Phillips Program in order to elucidate its academic effectiveness. (Author/SJL)