Citizen Schools: An After-Hours Adventure--Professionals Mentoring Middle-Grades Students

Autor/in	Cavanagh, Sean
Titel	Citizen Schools: An After-Hours Adventure--Professionals Mentoring Middle-Grades Students
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2007) 19, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Middle School Students; After School Programs; Leadership Training; School Business Relationship; Academic Achievement; Grades (Scholastic); Scores; Tutoring; Mentors; Disadvantaged Youth; Apprenticeships; Middle Schools; Masters Programs; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Führungslehre; Schulleistung; Notenspiegel; Förderkonzept; Nachhilfeunterricht; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Apprenticeship; Lehre; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Citizen Schools is an apprenticeship program offered outside school hours that seeks to build students' academic and leadership skills by connecting them with professionals from various fields. Launched in Boston in 1994, the program targets what some say is an underserved population in after-school education--middle school students--through a highly structured blend of academic tutoring and mentoring. Citizen Schools has grown steadily over the years. It now serves 2,000 students in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, the vast majority from disadvantaged backgrounds, in 30 schools and five states. Youths spend an average of 400 hours a year, taking part in projects, activities, and academic tutoring led by doctors, lawyers, architects, chefs, artists, and many others, who try to inspire them to think about college and careers of their own. The program has also broadened its training beyond students. In 2003, Citizen Schools established a master's-degree program in education, with a specialty in out-of-school education, with Lesley University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to a recent study, the model improves the reading and mathematics test scores and the grades of the students participating. Grade-to-grade promotion and attendance rates also improved, as well as performance in high school. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10