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Out-of-School Time
AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs
— Apr. 2010
Executive summary at Public/Private Ventures website
Low Income and Impoverished Families Pay More Disproportionately for Child Care
— Winter 2010
The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs
— Sep. 2009
Final report at MDRC website
After-School Program Impact on Physical Activity and Fitness: A Meta-Analysis
— June 2009
Research-Based Recommendations to Improve Child Nutrition in Schools and Out-Of-School Time Programs
— May 2009
The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs
— Jan. 2009
The Health and Well-Being of Children: A Portrait of States and the Nation 2007
— 2009
U.S. Child Labor Violations in the Retail and Service Industries: Findings From a National Survey of Working Adolescents
— Sep. 2008
Outcomes Linked to High-Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs
— May 2008
Evaluating the Spirituality for Kids After-School Program
— Apr. 2008
CORAL Initiative
— Feb. 2008
The Over-Scheduling Myth
— Feb. 2008
Ways to Promote the Positive Development of Children and Youth
— Feb. 2008
Socioeconomic Disparities in the Prevalence of Work-Related Injuries Among Adolescents in the United States
— Jan. 2008
2007 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey Overview
— 2008
Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost?
— 2008
Trends in the Prevalence of Selected Risk Behaviors for All Students National YRBS: 1991-2007
— 2008
The Family: America's Smallest School
— Oct. 2007
Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey
— June 2007
Extensive Television Viewing and the Development of Attention and Learning Difficulties During Adolescence
— May 2007
Quality Time After School
— May 2007
Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of-School Time Participation
— Apr. 2007
Assessing Substance Use and Abuse Among Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
— Mar. 2007
Assessing the Diet, Exercise, Body Image, and Weight of Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
— Mar. 2007
Assessing the Mental Health of Adolescents: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners
— Mar. 2007
The Impact of After-School Programs that Promote Personal and Social Skills
— 2007
Impacts of a Summer Learning Program: A Random Assignment Study of Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL)
— Aug. 2006
Learning From Small-Scale Experimental Evaluations of After School Programs
— May 2006
What Are Kids Getting Into These Days? Demographic Differences in Youth Out-of School Time Participation
— Mar. 2006
Making Out-of-School-Time Matter
— Mar. 2005
All Work and No Play? Listening to What Kids and Parents Really Want from Out-of-School Time
— Nov. 2004
When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers Program
— Oct. 2004
Where and When Teens First Have Sex
— June 2003
Left Unsupervised: A Look at the Most Vulnerable Children
— Apr. 2003
Infrequent Parental Monitoring Predicts Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Low-Income African American Female Adolescents
— Feb. 2003
When and Where Do Youths Have Sex? The Potential Role of Adult Supervision
— Dec. 2002
Longitudinal Study of the Number and Choice of Leisure Time Physical Activities From Mid to Late Adolescence
— Nov. 2002
The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families
— Nov. 2002
Community Interventions to Promote Healthy Social Environments: Early Childhood Development and Family Housing
— Feb. 2002
Academic Effects of After-School Programs
— Nov. 2001
Evaluating After-School Care
— 2001
When School is Out
— Fall 1999
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