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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.
> Excerpt

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.
> Excerpt

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.
> Excerpt

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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