The Fifth Dimension: An After-School Program Built on Diversity

by Michael Cole and Michael Cole

Book Overview

The significant increase in the number of working mothers over the last twenty years has led to widespread worries about the plight of "latchkey kids," who return from school each day to empty homes. Concerned that unsupervised children might be at greater risk of delinquency, schools and communities across the nation began providing after-school activities. But many of these programs were hastily devised with little understanding of what constitutes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871540843
• ISBN13: 9780871540843
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"