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28,800 Minutes: How much can you learn in a year after school?

TASC Annual Report 2009

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In America, the poorest kids have the fewest after-school opportunities. “People don’t rise from nothing,” Malcolm Gladwell writes in Outliers: The Story of Success. “Small initial advantages lock children into patterns of achievement and underachievement, encouragement and discouragement, that stretch on and on for years.”

TASC programs give kids 28,800 minutes a year of instruction and encouragement after 3 PM. That’s like 72 extra school days. Every kid has the time. But it’s meaningless unless twinned with opportunity.

In this report, you’ll see what a difference an extra 28,800 minutes can make.

About Expanded Learning
Time / New York City

ELT / NYC is a redesign of the school day that TASC is piloting in 10 New York City schools. Kids get 30 percent more time for academic instruction and support every year, as well as diverse enrichments and sports. Watch this video to see what ELT / NYC looks like.

About 90 minutes: Building a Telescope

Every afternoon is an opportunity to engage kids in hands-on activities that educate and inspire them. In this video, find out how much kids can learn in just one day after school.

About 3,840 Minutes: Saving a Neighborhood Park

Each school uses extra time differently to help students be their best. At SOBRO / PS-MS 3 in the Bronx, a group of middle school students have launched a campaign to clean up five acres of neglected ballfields adjacent to their school. Watch this video to see what they are learning along the way.

About 54,000 Minutes: Building Community Leaders

Every year, TASC supports AmeriCorps volunteers who work in New York City after-school programs. These young people provide critical staffing resources to programs and act as valuable role models to kids – all while earning money for college. In this video, hear what they have learned from their year of service.