February 24, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
When School Is Out, edited by Richard E. Behrman, is the latest issue of a journal published three times a year by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Center for the Future of Children. This issue examines the benefits of after-school programs for kids aged 5 to 14 and makes seven recommendations for ways to encourage the development of more programs. Contributors include Robin L. Jarrett, an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who describes successful strategies used by low-income black parents to keep their children out of trouble, and the writer Joy G. Dryfoos, who examines school-based programs designed to keep students occupied after classes. Publisher: The Packard Foundation, 300 Second Street, Suite 200, Los Altos, Calif. 94022; (650) 948-7658; fax (650) 948-6498; circulation@futureofchildren.org; http://www.futureofchildren.org;160 pages; free; I.S.S.N. 1054-8289.
