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Emily Wolter

The Effects of Homework Programs and After-School Activities on School Succ...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • NATIONAL CONCERNS HAVE BEEN raised about the number of children who do not have supervised activities after school. The U.S. Department of Justice (1999) reported that the peak time for juvenile crime is between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. on school days, the period after school until parents typically return from work.
  • esults of the Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National Report suggest that after-school programs have greater potential for reducing juvenile crime than imposition of a juvenile curfew.
  • student participation in structured activities, religious activities, and time with adults during 10th grade had a significant positive impact on educational outcomes for those same students in 12th grade. Conversely
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  • that academic outcomes of this program were mediated by changes in the student's self-confidence as well as changes in teacher perceptions of the student's efforts.
  • Participation in an after-school program designed to build self-esteem had positive effects on standardized test scores in math and reading, while receiving extended school time to complete homework did not have the same positive effects on self-esteem or achievement.
  • studies indicate that after-school academic support may play a protective role by helping to prevent a loss of school engagement even if it doesn't result in higher levels of functioning.
  • The Gevirtz Homework Project
  • Most researchers believe that involvement in extracurricular activities has an indirect impact on achievement by increasing connectedness to the school and by helping to build student strengths, thereby increasing self-esteem and positive social networks
  • At the end of sixth grade, teachers rated English language learner participants in the homework project higher in academic effort and study skills than English language learners in the control group.
  • Studies have shown that involvement in extracurricular activities is associated with school engagement and achievement
  • Rather than divert students from meeting their academic goals, studies find that students engaged in extracurricular activities--including sports, service clubs, and art activities--are less likely to drop out
  • and more likely to have higher academic achievement
  • All fourth-grade students in three participating schools were engaged in the project, with students randomly assigned to treatment (Homework Project) and non-treatment after their stratification into high, medium, and low achievement groups at school. Students were also stratified on the basis of ethnicity and English proficiency, with equal numbers assigned to the homework project and to the non-treatment control group.
  • For example, while "no play" rules that prohibit students with low GPAs from participating in extracurricular activities may provide a needed incentive to some students,
Emily Wolter

Do extracurricular activities protect against early school dropout? - 0 views

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  • Sixteen percent (27 girls, 34 boys) were early school dropouts. Students who dropped out of school had participated in significantly fewer extracurricular activities at all grades, including several years prior to dropout.
  • middle school level
  • only athletic participation that differentiated dropouts from non-dropouts: those who did not drop out had been significantly more involved in athletics than those who did drop out.
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  • showing that those who dropped out were more likely to have had no involvement in extracurricular arts (27 percent) than to have had arts involvement (7 percent).
Emily Wolter

Extracurricular Participation And Student Engagement - 0 views

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  • Extracurricular activities provide a channel for reinforcing the lessons learned in the classroom, offering students the opportunity to apply academic skills in a real-world context, and are thus considered part of a well-rounded education.
  • During the first semester of their senior year, participants reported better attendance than their non-participating classmates--half of them had no unexcused absences from school and half had never skipped a class, compared with one-third and two-fifths of nonparticipants,
  • participated were three times as likely to perform in the top quartile on a composite math and reading assessment compared with nonparticipants.
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  • two-thirds of participants expected to complete at least a bachelor's degree while about half of nonparticipants expected to do so. It cannot be known from these data
  • regardless of whether the schools attended were large (750 students or more) or small (less than 150), in rural, urban or suburban settings, or served large (20 percent or more minority) or small proportions of minority students (less than 20 percent), almost all students reported that extracurricular activities were available to them (data not shown in table).
  • About four of every five seniors said they participated in at least one extracurricular activity in 1992
  • Low SES students, for example, may be more likely to participate in schools where they are in the majority and less likely to participate in more affluent schools where they are in the relative minority.
  • U.S. Department of EducationInstitute of Education SciencesNational Center for Education Statistics
Emily Wolter

PUBLICAGENDA.ORG - Survey: Sports, Arts, Clubs, Volunteering -- Out-of-School Activitie... - 0 views

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  • How Leaders and Parents Think About Accountability in Public Schools Can Parents Save American Education? PUBLIC AGENDA PRESS RELEASE Survey: Sports, Arts, Clubs, Volunteering -- Out-of-School Activities Play Crucial, Positive Role for Kids But new research points to differences between policy makers' focus on programs' educational value and what most families are really seeking; Low-income and minority families much less satisfied with their children's optionsDATE OF RELEASE: Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
chelseysue13

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    "Full Biography The life of visionary and activist Spencer West has been marked by both obstacles and triumph. After losing both legs from the pelvis down at the age of five, he entered a world that might have easily defeated him. Instead, he tackled challenge after challenge, learning to navigate in a world set against those with disabilities. His many accomplishments, played out on the global stage, led him to discover the techniques business leaders, professionals, educators and young people can use to redefine possible in their own lives and careers. Whether headlining corporate conferences, filling stadiums, or leading volunteer excursions for youth and adults in Kenya, Ghana and India, Spencer's words have encouraged millions to stand up to difficult times, face challenges, embrace change, and learn the tangible skills each one of us can use to redefine what is possible both for organizations and individuals. Spencer's journey was featured in the documentary Redefine Possible: The Story of Spencer West, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012. He is also the author of Standing Tall: My Journey, in which he shares his incredible story with the world. As a global speaker, Spencer has captivated hundreds of thousands with his keynote addresses on Redefining Possible. He has appeared countless times in the media (ABC News, 60 Minutes, CTV, BBC, TMZ and CNN) and shared the stage with luminaries such as former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore, Dr. Jane Goodall, Rick Hansen, Mia Farrow, Martin Sheen and Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams, Martin Luther King III, Ex-President Gorbachev, General Romeo Dallaire, Justin Trudeau, JR Martinez and musicians such as Macklemore, Jason Mraz, Hedley, the Kenyan Boys Choir, Jennifer Hudson and Nelly Furtado. Spencer has received rave reviews from corporate and nonprofit audiences such as BlackBerry, KPMG, Microsoft, Campbell's, Virgin, YPO, WPO, Business Leadership Network, Royal Bank of Canada, Un
ben douvier

Schools That Work: America's Most Innovative Public Education Programs (Plume): George ... - 0 views

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Aiden Gosiak

Why teens dont like to go to school - by Z. Blake - Helium - 0 views

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      Teens Do not trully enjoy school, its considered boring and an obstacle in their way
Aiden Gosiak

Why kids hate school - subject by subject - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • It isn’t their fault. They are cogs in a system over which they have no control.
  • Chemistry
  • History:
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  • English
  • not having to write a book report.
  • Biology.
  • picking your own books to read
  • Economics.
  • Physics.
  • t didn’t help the Wright Brothers. Why don’t they teach engineering in high school? Because engineering wasn’t a subject at Harvard in 1892.
Cortney Kostreba

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  • Improving child nutrition is the focal point of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The legislation authorizes funding and sets policy for USDA's core child nutrition programs: the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Summer Food Service Program, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act allows USDA, for the first time in over 30 years, opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children.
Aiden Gosiak

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Aiden Gosiak

Eight Reasons Kids Hate School (And How to Work Around Them) - Yahoo! Voices - voices.y... - 0 views

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Why Kids Hate School - Parenting.com - 0 views

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Austin Gerads

How Gun Control Kills | The American Conservative - 0 views

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  • Here is a list of potential national tragedies that were prevented thanks to an armed populace (as compiled by the Libertarian Party):“A 1997 high school shooting in Pearl, Miss., was halted by the school’s vice principal after he retrieved the Colt .45 he kept in his truck; A 1998 middle school shooting ended when a man living next door heard gunfire and apprehended the shooter with his shotgun; A 2002 law school shooting in Grundy, Va., came to an abrupt conclusion when students carrying firearms confronted the shooter; A 2007 mall shooting in Ogden, Utah, ended when an armed off-duty police officer intervened; A 2009 workplace shooting in Houston, Texas, was halted by two coworkers who carried concealed handguns; A 2012 church shooting in Aurora, Colo., was stopped by a member of the congregation carrying a gun.”
Austin Gerads

Gun control isn't the answer - LA Times - 0 views

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  • Leading British, French, German, Italian and Spanish newspapers have blamed the United States for listening to Charlton Heston and the National Rifle Assn. Many of their claims are a little strange. At least two papers said we should ban semiautomatic assault weapons (even though the killer did not use one); another said that buying a machine gun is easier than getting a driver's license (even though no one can legally buy a machine gun); a third wrote that gun violence is becoming more common (when in fact the U.S. homicide rate has fallen dramatically over the last dozen years).
  • There are federally required background checks on purchasing weapons; many states (including Virginia) limit gun purchases to one a month, and juveniles may not buy them at all. But even if there were even tougher limits, access to guns would remain relatively easy. Not the least because, as is true today, many would be stolen and others would be obtained through straw purchases made by a willing confederate. It is virtually impossible to use new background check or waiting-period laws to prevent dangerous people from getting guns. Those that they cannot buy, they will steal or borrow.
  • There are many compelling cases. In one Mississippi high school, an armed administrator apprehended a school shooter. In a Pennsylvania high school, an armed merchant prevented further deaths. Would an armed teacher have prevented some of the deaths at Virginia Tech? We cannot know, but it is not unlikely.
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  • AS FOR THE European disdain for our criminal culture, many of those countries should not spend too much time congratulating themselves. In 2000, the rate at which people were robbed or assaulted was higher in England, Scotland, Finland, Poland, Denmark and Sweden than it was in the United States. The assault rate in England was twice that in the United States. In the decade since England banned all private possession of handguns, the BBC reported that the number of gun crimes has gone up sharply.
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