Date Posted 6/9/2011
Expand Options, Expand Achievement: How Expanded Learning Options Can Reimagine Education sets a course for how the business community can meaningfully engage in creating a seamless learning environment in their communities that will equip students with the academic knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy. The brief focuses on: re-imagining how, when, and where young people learn; why we need to re-imagine learning; expanded learning opportunities and how business can get engaged.

This brief, After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What it Takes to Achieve It asks two questions: Does participation in after school programs make a difference, and, if so (b) what conditions appear to be necessary to achieve positive results? It also includes questions meant to spur conversation about the evolving role of after school in efforts to expand time and opportunities for children and youth in the 21st century.

Recruiting and Retaining Older Youth in Afterschool provides innovative strategies that programs can use in their quest to attract and keep older youth engaged and interested.