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Harvard officials gathered with civic, business and city leaders yesterday to formally announce the Boston After School for All Partnership, beginning a five-year, $23 million dollar commitment to improve and expand afterschool programs in the city of Boston...
Through the already-existing Program in Afterschool Education and Research (PAER) which runs through the Graduate School of Education, officials said they plan to work with afterschool programs to improve teacher training and curricula offered...
...inter-faculty group, linking faculty members from a number of Harvard's schools, will research "larger, systemic barriers and solutions to increasing and improving afterschool programs...
PAER will also work with the Harvard Children's Initiative (HCI) and Phillips Brooks House--both programs that already work in the area of afterschool programming--to mobilize volunteers and coordinate training and assessment...
Harvard Medical School Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Judith Palfrey, who directs the HCI, said she thinks the new initiative will be a significant step towards increasing the scope of afterschool programs in the city...