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Research Brief: English Learners And Out-Of-School-Time Programs
Out-of-School-Time (OST) programs offer the ability to expand the school day and provide English learner (EL) students with more time in educational settings that help to address the dual learning challenges they face. Research shows that this additional time can make a difference if used effectively. To that end, this brief highlights research-supported ways in which OST programs might be particularly well suited to support EL students during that extra time.
Maximizing After School Opportunities for English Learners
This report was released in August 2009 by the Alliance for a Better Community. It documents that after school programs are a key resource for English Learners citing Preliminary research on English learner student performance in after school programs shows that such programs have a significant role in increasing language acquisition rates for English learners and decreasing the time it takes English learners to redesignate into mainstream English classrooms.