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In America, the poorest kids have the fewest after-school opportunities. “People don’t rise from nothing,” Malcolm Gladwell writes in Outliers: The Story of Success. “Small initial advantages lock children into patterns of achievement and underachievement, encouragement and discouragement, that stretch on and on for years.”
TASC programs give kids 28,800 minutes a year of instruction and encouragement after 3 PM. That’s like 72 extra school days. Every kid has the time. But it’s meaningless unless twinned with opportunity.
In this report, you’ll see what a difference an extra 28,800 minutes can make.
Expanded Learning
Time / New York City
ELT / NYC is a redesign of the school day that TASC is piloting in 10 New York City schools. Kids get 30 percent more time for academic instruction and support every year, as well as diverse enrichments and sports. Watch this video to see what ELT / NYC looks like.
90 minutes: Building a Telescope
Every afternoon is an opportunity to engage kids in hands-on activities that educate and inspire them. In this video, find out how much kids can learn in just one day after school.
3,840 Minutes: Saving a Neighborhood Park
Each school uses extra time differently to help students be their best. At SOBRO / PS-MS 3 in the Bronx, a group of middle school students have launched a campaign to clean up five acres of neglected ballfields adjacent to their school. Watch this video to see what they are learning along the way.
54,000 Minutes: Building Community Leaders
Every year, TASC supports AmeriCorps volunteers who work in New York City after-school programs. These young people provide critical staffing resources to programs and act as valuable role models to kids – all while earning money for college. In this video, hear what they have learned from their year of service.
Through the TASC 2009 Annual Report, we invite you to see the difference an extra 28,800 minutes of learning each year can make in the life of a student. This report takes you inside schools across New York City where The After-School Corporation works with dynamic principals and community partners to expand the learning day to 6 PM. As the clock ticks past 3 in Jamaica, the Bronx and Bedford-Stuyvesant, kids are not just learning and growing into the next generation’s leaders. They’re learning with gusto.
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