Early Years

After-School Care: There may be a connection between children's experiences in after-school care and how those children--especially boys--behave and adjust in school, according to a recent study.

An evaluation of 38 programs for school-age children operated by schools, day-care centers, and community centers found a relationship between the experiences children had in those programs and their performance in school.

In conducting the evaluation, Deborah Vandell, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her colleagues studied 150 1st graders. The researchers will continue to follow that group of children through their elementary school years as part of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research's ongoing...