Age range

Website: They are in the process of developing a website.

Mission/Goals: The project focuses on recognizing and strengthening the whole child, including physical, cognitive, and social aspects through hands-on and experiential activities. It aims to create community-based learning communities.

Notes: There are programs in nine different schools in Albuquerque. This is part of the 21st Century Learning Centers Program. It has been recognized as a model of university-community relations by AmeriCorps Direct Education.

Source(s): www.ed.gov/programs/

21stcclc/index.html

Type of Evaluation: Experimental evaluation for the elementary study.

Note: This evaluation is a national evaluation of the 21st Century Learning Centers Program.

Objective: This evaluation focused on student outcomes in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Impact/Outcomes: Attendance at programs was moderate. Students in the program were more likely to be with adults who were not their parents after school than control group students. Students attending after-school programs scored no better on reading tests than their peers in the control group; nor did their grades in English, mathematics, science, and social studies increase. Roughly 1.5 percent of participants compared with 4.5 percent of nonparticipants, reported feeling "not at all safe" after school. Programs had few impacts on developmental outcomes, and students in programs were no less likely than students in the control group to be suspended, to receive detention, or to misbehave.