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PHildaelphia Safe and Sound released a research and policy brief this spring on just this very topic. It addresses the limitations that NCLB has placed on after school programs and that the aftershool movement was not created with the sole purpose of improving partipants' performace on standardized tests.
http://www.philasafesound.org/publications/publist.php
Timshel
Ms. Timshel Purdum
Manager: Elementary Science Education
The Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-405-5071
Fax: 215-299-1165
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>>> Peggy Zemach <[log in to unmask]> 7/10/2007 1:53 PM >>>
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Here's a question for you all. An after school science program ( I don't
remember which state) shut it's doors after 27 years because they were not
able to prove that their programs improved test scores. What a shame!! As we
all develop inquiry-based programs, how important is it to fit into the
school education standards? My take is that we, in the museum education
field, have the luxury to develop informal education programs that students
don't get in the schools but maybe we are all doomed to improve student
test scores. Thoughts?
Peggy M. Zemach
Discovery Museum at the Powerhouse
1099 Main Ave. #316
Durango, CO 81301
970-422-2034
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www.durangodiscovery.org
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats
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