Viewpoints
Audio CDs: A Guide to Contents
The CDs provide various perspectives on schools and after-school learning.
CD 1 - INTERVIEWS (in order of appearance)
- Introduction
- Judy Caplan is a senior program associate at Learning Point Associates and, for the past nine years, has worked with schools and community groups in partnerships designed to improve child and family well being. A member of the 21st Century Community Learning Center's national training task force, she has developed and trained many of the 1,600 grantees funded under that program. She is also coauthor of Strengthening Connections Between School and After-School Programs and Beyond the Bell®: A Toolkit for Creating Effective After-School Programs.
- Mark Dynarski is a senior fellow at Mathematica, a research institution in Princeton, New Jersey, and coauthor of When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers Program.
- John Leichty is the assistant superintendent for extended-day programs for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
- Jean Grossman is senior vice president at Public-Private Ventures, a social policy think tank in Philadelphia. She is also on the faculty of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton where she teaches program evaluation. She recently completed an extensive study of four exemplary after-school models for the Wallace Readers Digest Fund.
CD 2 - INTERVIEWS (in order of appearance)
- Rhonda Lauer is the CEO of Foundations, Inc., a nonprofit organization that has run successful after-school programs in Philadelphia for some years. Today, Foundations also manages a handful of public schools in that city.
- Sally Quinn is with the Children's Aid Society of New York, one of the nation's oldest social welfare agencies. Children's Aid runs community-based enrichment and athletic programs, as well as school-based programs.
- Nick Blatchford also works for the Children's Aid Society of New York where he runs the New Heights Program for Student Athletes. The adults at New Heights leverage children's love of sports and organized competition to keep them engaged in school and on task. The program also leverages parents' love of their children's triumphs into interest in their children's school work.
- Carla Sanger is president and CEO of LA's BEST, a partnership of business leaders, youth-development agencies, and the school district, brought together in the mid-90s by the mayor of Los Angeles. The program pays for and runs elementary after-school enrichment programs in some of the city's neediest neighborhoods.
- Edward Gordon wrote several books on tutoring, including Tutor Quest: Finding Effective Education for Children and Adults; Centuries of Tutoring: A History of Alternative Education in America and Western Europe; and Educator's Consumer Guide to Private Tutoring Services.
- Margaret Flynn is a researcher at the Finance Project, a nonprofit organization that helps community programs sustain themselves financially.
- Nicholas Donohue is the commissioner of education in New Hampshire, a state with a large number of rural schools and high academic standards.
- Matt Lupsha is the vice president of educational services for Kumon North America, one of the most popular for-profit tutoring vendors in the country.
