Participation in afterschool programs is influencing
academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as
suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by
achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in
academic achievement test scores; greater
on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.
Research has well established that removing students from class has negative impacts
on their
academic achievement, and there's broad recognition that
suspensions and expulsions do very little
on their own to address the underlying issues that cause most students to misbehave.