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After-school program offers enrichment to pupils
- 03-09-2011
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By Nora Fleming/Education Week
When the final bell rings here at Kingsley Elementary School, half its 500 students leave, many joining the estimated one-quarter of all children across California who take care of themselves after school. For those at Kingsley that stay on campus, half, though supervised, must occupy themselves while they remain on school grounds. But the 100 or so others take part in a highly regarded after-school program that combines homework help, academic enrichment, and recreation with a snack. Designed by LA's BEST—for Better Educated Students for Tomorrow—the country’s largest after-school organization partnered with a school district, that "three and a half beats" curriculum has shown to be effective in improving student performance for disadvantaged students throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD, for more than two decades. (more...)
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