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Voices in Urban Education
Extending Learning
VUE Number 16, Summer 2007
Table of Contents
Leveling the Playing Field:
The Promise of Extended Learning
Opportunities and Supports
for Youth
by Heidi Harris Lemmel and Robert Rothman
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Focus for Learning
by Shirley Brice Heath
Community organizations offer possibilities
for young people to focus their learning
by using language and communication as
vehicles for developing understanding.
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Across the Doorsill:
Extending Learning with Students
in Mind and Body
by Eileen Landay
A program designed to develop literacy in
and through the arts creates a “third space”
between students’ lives in school and their
lives outside of school.
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Understanding and Supporting
Children’s Mathematical
Learning Lives
by Sophia Cohen and Dennie Palmer Wolf
A documentation of students’ “learning lives”
reveals an untapped opportunity to connect
mathematical learning in and out of school.
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Alternative High Schools:
Pioneering Promising Practices for
Blending Academic and Extended
Learning Opportunities
by David Lemmel and
Samuel Steinberg Seidel
An initiative to create alternative high schools
is aiming to erase the line be and out-of-school learning.
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Volunteers in Service to Youth:
Citizen Schools
by Heather Harding, Ned Rimer, and
Camrin Fredrick
An after-school program that started in
Boston enlists volunteers from throughout the
community to teach and nurture children.
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The Providence After School Alliance
by David N. Cicilline
By coordinating and expanding after-school
programs, Providence, Rhode Island, is extending
the time the community is responsible for the
healthy upbringing of its youth.
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