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This 4 page paper discusses various aspects of successful after-school programs. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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out and the parents come home; the answer is after-school programs. This paper is a literature review of sources that discuss various aspects of after-school programs. Methodology Most of the
articles come from the Academic Search Premier database, which can be accessed via most library systems. Most of these are journal articles but there are one or two from the
Internet. The search parameters used were simply "After-school program" (singular) which the system itself narrowed by doing an additional search for "after-school programs" (plural). The Literature Almost all of the
sources say the same things: that children have to enjoy after-school programs if they are to be effective; that parents have to be involved for the programs to be successful;
and that not all children enjoy the programs to the same extent. Some of the findings seem obvious, but that may simply mean that a number of people have come
to the same conclusions independently. A Philadelphia company called Public/Private Ventures evaluates social programs, and has studied five "Beacon Centers" to determine what makes a good after-school program (Gewertz, 2007,
p. 17). The evaluation revealed that children get the most from programs they found to be well-managed (Gewertz, 2007). Good management in this context consisted of setting "reasonable ground rules,
providing encouragement and praise, reinforcing expectations consistently, and handling broken ground rules in a firm but not harsh way" (Gewertz, 2007, p. 17). One enjoyable program is run in
San Francisco, where the "Thrive House" provides after-school programs for 48 "needy local children" (Mount, 2007, p. 96). This effort features "a computer lab, library, potters wheel, and gourmet kitchen
for use by the kids who drop in" (Mount, 2007, p. 96). The staff comprises six "paid, professional mentors" who are there every day "from 2 P.M. until sundown" (Mount,
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