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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.

This webinar explored promising out-of-school time strategies to engage older youth and support them through high school and into college.

This resource guide offers strategies to advance informal science education in after-school.

This report details cross-city evaluation findings from the After School Apprenticeship Program (ASAP) in New York City, Boston and Providence.

To ensure well-designed expanded learning opportunities take root across the country, this policy brief sets forth a set of six recommendations to address challenges to a broad adoption of expanded learning strategies in school reform initiatives.

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.

This toolkit contains strategies for developing a high-quality apprenticeship experience for high school youth.

The webinar focused on the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS) initiative to identify and track common measures of quality for out-of-school time (OST) programs.

A new report aims to further the conversation of how school reform and improvement strategies can take full advantage of expanded learning opportunities to promote student learning, development, and engagement.

This policy commentary by the Forum for Youth Investment highlights the work of TASC and its partners in the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS) to develop and adopt common youth-, program- and system-level measures that are easy and cost-effective for local systems to implement.

The Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS) published this policy brief to explore Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiatives, a school reform strategy that lengthens the traditional school day or year to increase learning time.

The Collaborative (CBASS) published this report to document the critical role intermediaries play in the development of after-school systems in their cities. This report shows how intermediaries have helped increase the quality, sustainability, and availability of after-school and offers a vision for public policy change to support the continued growth of after-school.