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Presented at the National Summer Learning Association National Conference, November 16, 2011.

CBASS's letter to Chairman Tom Harkin and Ranking Member Mike Enzi, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, contains policy recommendations in seven areas.

Originally published in the Huffington Post, this essay makes the case for strengthening and expanding the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program.

This memo to Senator Bernard Sanders contains policy recommendations for the Improving Student Achievement and Engagement through Expanded Learning Time Act of 2011 (S.1311).

CBASS's memo to Chairman Tom Harkin, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee contains policy recommendations in nine areas.

Expanded learning time is a strategy to enhance education by increasing the time and expanding the ways students can learn, within and beyond the classroom.

With nearly one-third of incoming 9th graders dropping out of school before they graduate, the need to engage and sustain more young people through high school and post-secondary success is urgent. High-quality after-school and summer programs can bolster young people’s engagement in school and improve their chances to graduate and achieve success in college and careers.

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This webinar explored promising out-of-school time strategies to engage older youth and support them through high school and into college.

This resource guide offers strategies to advance informal science education in after-school.

This report details cross-city evaluation findings from the After School Apprenticeship Program (ASAP) in New York City, Boston and Providence.

To ensure well-designed expanded learning opportunities take root across the country, this policy brief sets forth a set of six recommendations to address challenges to a broad adoption of expanded learning strategies in school reform initiatives.

High-quality after-school and summer programs can bolster young people’s engagement in school and improve their chances to graduate and achieve success in college and careers.

This toolkit contains strategies for developing a high-quality apprenticeship experience for high school youth.

The webinar focused on the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS) initiative to identify and track common measures of quality for out-of-school time (OST) programs.

A new report aims to further the conversation of how school reform and improvement strategies can take full advantage of expanded learning opportunities to promote student learning, development, and engagement.