5/30/2012. Filed under Press Releases.

This year’s plenary session at the Afterschool for All Challenge, Afterschool Works: Understanding the Evidence & Transforming Research into Action, highlighted some of the most compelling research that finds that afterschool programs improve attendance, student behavior, graduation rates and more. In addition to sharing recent findings, Afterschool Alliance Board Chairman Terry Peterson moderated a panel discussion with experts who shared their first-hand experiences with program evaluation and data collection and pointed out how afterschool providers should use data to support the compelling stories of their programs. Read more…