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The Daily News reports on TASC's pilot project to expand the school day or school year in up to 15 New York City elementary and middle schools, beginning next year.

New York City students who attended middle school after-school programs had better attendance in ninth grade, and earned more credits, than students who did not, according to an independent analysis of students in after-school programs supported by The After-School Corporation (TASC).

TASC shares lessons from this evolving initiative in a newly published report, Meeting the High School Challenge: Making After-School Work for Older Students. The report describes three programmatic approaches TASC has developed to successfully engage and meet the expectations of older students, and support their passage from high school to college and careers.

Science education seems destined this year to have its highest political profile since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957. That catalytic event led to passage the following year of far-reaching federal legislation designed to boost the nation's scientific literacy and enhance its production of scientists. Today, a different catalyst - the threat to U.S. competitiveness in the global economy - has prompted calls for new government action to stimulate our once-again-faltering pipeline of young scientists.

Reprinted with permission from Youth Today: The Newspaper on Youth Work.
By Patrick Boyle

Reprinted with permission from Education Update

By Lucy A. Friedman