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Novey has worked for Citizen Schools, an organization which brings volunteer teachers to middle schools to share their knowledge through after-school programs, for the past two years. “Normally when Burgerman sees a problem, he just throws some ketchup on it, and that usually makes it better,” he said. But when it came to the problem of improving education, “this was just not something that could be solved by ketchup. We need some resources...
Itching for a good after-school science experiment? Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey have created a homemade bedbug trap using a plastic cat-food dish, an insulated jug and some dry-ice pellets. According to Wan-Tien Tsai, who reported her findings in December at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, the dry-ice-and-thermos combo captured the bloodsucking critters in an infested apartment just as effectively as, if not more so than, equipment used by professional exterminators. (See the fascinating, frightening world of insects...
...loved the illustration of the Chinese educational system as told through the story of 7-year-old Liu. Although Liu's parents work, he is met each afternoon by his grandparents, who are active participants in his after-school activities. Liu was surrounded by his extended family at his great-grandmother's 90th birthday party before he headed to his Saturday classes. I was struck by how enriched he must be--not just by his teachers but also by his family...
Part of the reason is family involvement. Consider Liu, the 7-year-old who had to leave the birthday party to go to Saturday school. Both his parents work, so when he goes home each day, his grandparents are there to greet him and put him through his after-school paces. His mother says simply, "This is normal. All his classmates work like this after school...
Vice Mayor Sam Seidel, who was first elected in 2007, named the improvement of the Cambridge Public School system the “number one issue” of his campaign. He said he is especially concerned with the availability of after-school programs for Cambridge students...