In this policy brief, TASC offers policy recommendations to bring down bureaucratic barriers and encourage schools to collaborate on off-campus learning with community partners such as art and science institutions.
New York State Afterschool Network (NYSAN) is a statewide public-private partnership dedicated to promoting young people's safety, learning and healthy development outside the traditional classroom.
Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) include high-quality afterschool, summer learning, and extended day and/or year programs in school and community settings that reshape when, where, and how learning occurs.
This brief argues that high-quality science learning outside the traditional classroom is critical to young people’s success, and outlines practical steps to make it accessible throughout New York State.
Expanded learning time schools, after-school and summer programs offer the ideal time, places and conditions to equalize and advance technology-enabled learning.
The TASC eNewsletter is published every month and contains legislative analysis, funding opportunities, information resources and jobs opportunities. This issue contains a slideshow of TASC's Reading Partnerships program.
This two-pager gives an overview of the ExpandED Schools approach, including a sample schedule, the cost model, evidence that it works, and a case study.
TASC developed this fiscal map, analysis and set of policy recommendations in an effort to: 1) show how many sources of funding schools and community partners can bring to expanded learning approaches—29 at the federal level alone—and, 2) highlight for policymakers who control one or more of these funding streams just how complex this picture is.
23 Sep 2011, TASC and the Partnership for Children and Youth
Originally published in the Huffington Post, this essay makes the case for strengthening and expanding the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program.
