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After-School Programs Should Not Rely on Homework

5/21/2017

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According to a survey conducted by the Afterschool Alliance in 2014, 10.2 million children are enrolled in after-school programs; unfortunately, another 11.3 million children go home alone after school unsupervised.  After-school programs can be very positive experiences.  Unfortunately, many after-school programs are not.  Many after-school programs are homework-based; they concentrate on helping children complete their homework.  Homework has been proven ineffective in helping children improve academically (See my earlier post on this subject.).  For the second year in a row our after-school, Reading Orienteering Club, has proven to be effective for helping children improve academically in reading.  Last year, we had one student move up 4 grade levels in reading in one year, 3 students moved up 3 grade levels, and 8 students moved up 2 grade levels.  This year, we had 2 students move up 4 grade levels in reading in one year, 3 students move up three grade levels in reading, and 5 move up two grade levels in reading.  We do not work on school-assigned homework.  We meet twice a week and teach vowel clustering.  We reteach children how to read.


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    Elaine Clanton Harpine, Ph.D.

    Elaine is a program designer with many years of experience helping at-risk children learn to read. She earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology (Counseling) from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    if you teach a child to read, you can change the world.

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