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Promising Developments and New Directions in School Age Child Care

by Roger Neugebauer
July/August 1996
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School-age care is the fastest growing segment of the early childhood arena . . . and possibly the least visible. While programs have been serving school-age children in out-of-school hours since the turn of the century, it is only in recent years that professionals have started to view school-age care as a distinct discipline with its own unique history, challenges, and opportunities. This article will highlight some of the recent developments which have hastened the coming together of school-age child care, as well as provide some facts and figures on the nature of school-age care today. In a related article in this issue, Kay Albrecht will review two new books now available to assist school-age providers.

The Beginning of a Movement

In 1978, a school-age program organized by Mickey Seligson in the Brookline (Massachusetts) public schools was briefly described in Good Housekeeping magazine. As a result, Seligson was deluged with hundreds of inquiries from parents and educators throughout the country. This inspired Seligson to organize the School-Age Child Care Project to help develop school-age programs in communities where interest was high.

Nearly two decades later, the School-Age Child Care Project, located at the Wellesley College Center for Research on ...

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