Where Are Our Youth After School?
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References

Afterschool Alliance.  Working Families and Afterschool.  A special Report from American After 3 PM.  Retrieved at http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/america_3pm.cfm.

Thirteen Ed Online.  After school programs: From vision to reality.  Retrieved Decemper 14, 2006 from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/afterschool/implementation.html.

Fight crime:  Invest in kids, child care report.  Retrieved October 14, 2006 from ERIC.

Bratton, Brazelton, Newman, Sanders, Sherman, & Zigler (2000).  America's child care crisis:  A crime prevention strategy.  Retrieved December 13, 2006 from http://www.fightcrime.org/reports/childcarereport.pdf.

Chung & Hillsman (20050.  Evaluating after-school programs:  Early reports find positive gains but more research still needed. School Administrator,  v62 n5 p18.  Retrieved October 17, 2006 from ERIC.

Cosden, Leslie, Morrison, & Macias (2004).  When homework is not home work:  After-school programs for homework assistance.  Educational Psychologist, 36(3), 211-221.  Retrieved October 15, 2006 from Academic Search Premier.

Christenson, Flynn, Fox, & Newman (2000).  America's after-school choice:  The prime time for juvinile crime, or youth enrichment and achievement.  Fight Crime:  Invest in Kids.  Retrieved October 17, 2006 from ERIC.

Fight Crime:  Invest in Kids-Issues.  Retrieved from http://www.fightcrime.org/issue_aftersch.php.

Gottfredson, S. (2005).  The time of property crime, violence crime, and substance use among juveniles.  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 42, no. 1, 110-120.  Retrieved Octover 16, 2006 from ERIC.

Making the case: a fact sheet on children and youth in out-of-school time (2006).  Wellesley Center for Women, Wellesley College. Retrieved December 14, 2006 from http://www.noist.org/publications.Fact%20shet%%202006%Feb9%20.pdf.


Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (2001).  After school programs:  Good for kids, good for communities.  Retrieved December 15, 2006 from http://www.nwrel.org/request/jan99/article10.html.

United States Departmnet of Education (2002).  No child left behind:  The facts about 21st century learning.  Retrieved from http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/start/facts/21centlearn.html.

                                                                                                                                                                      
Last Updated: December 2006
Christa Kizito, Joseph Edwards, and Josh Michael