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Expanded learning time schools, after-school and summer programs offer the ideal time, places and conditions to equalize and advance technology-enabled learning.

The TASC eNewsletter is published every month and contains legislative analysis, funding opportunities, information resources and jobs opportunities. This issue contains a slideshow of TASC's Reading Partnerships program.

This two-pager gives an overview of the ExpandED Schools approach, including a sample schedule, the cost model, evidence that it works, and a case study.

This PowerPoint presentation was created for the 2011 Council of the Great City Schools fall conference.

TASC developed this fiscal map, analysis and set of policy recommendations in an effort to: 1) show how many sources of funding schools and community partners can bring to expanded learning approaches—29 at the federal level alone—and, 2) highlight for policymakers who control one or more of these funding streams just how complex this picture is.

Originally published in the Huffington Post, this essay makes the case for strengthening and expanding the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program.

This memo to Senator Bernard Sanders contains policy recommendations for the Improving Student Achievement and Engagement through Expanded Learning Time Act of 2011 (S.1311).

CBASS's memo to Chairman Tom Harkin, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee contains policy recommendations in nine areas.

The TASC eNewsletter is published every month and contains legislative analysis, funding opportunities, information resources and jobs opportunities. This issue contains an update from TASC's Digital Learning Forum in July.

The TASC eNewsletter is published every month and contains legislative analysis, funding opportunities, information resources and jobs opportunities. This issue shares resources for summer learning, including Summer Reading, "Boredom Busters", and digital learning opportunities.

In our 2010 annual report, see how TASC is building on 12 years of experience to bring the engagement power of after-school into an expanded school day to make learning more rigorous and relevant. Follow two fourth grade guides, Kiara and Donnell, to see how the learning day unfolds in a TASC Expanded Learning Time school.

This expanded learning time (ELT) backgrounder outlines information on the effectiveness of ELT, the five core elements in the ExpandED Schools (formerly TASC Expanded Learning Time) model and research evidence of increased learning.

The TASC eNewsletter is published every month and contains legislative analysis, funding opportunities, information resources and jobs opportunities. This issue includes a feature about Pathfinder, the free jobs site for after-school and youth work in New York City.

Expanded learning time is a strategy to enhance education by increasing the time and expanding the ways students can learn, within and beyond the classroom.

With nearly one-third of incoming 9th graders dropping out of school before they graduate, the need to engage and sustain more young people through high school and post-secondary success is urgent. High-quality after-school and summer programs can bolster young people’s engagement in school and improve their chances to graduate and achieve success in college and careers.