NCEE Evaluation Brief: After School Reading

A reading program, adapted for use in the after­school setting, resulted in 48 more hours of reading instruction during the school year (20 percent more) for reading program students than for their counterparts, but it did not increase student achievement in reading. The impacts did not vary significantly in different grades or for students with different prior performance. Nor did the reading program students and their counterparts differ significantly on other in ­school behaviors.