EPP The Libertarian Cato Institute Policy Analysis Of After-School Programs Panel

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June 09, 2000

Attention EducationWriters:

Resources On TheLibertarian Cato Institute policy analysis of after-school programs

The Libertarian Cato Institutehas just released a policy analysis arguing that most parents are satisfiedwith existing after-school arrangements and that government should not getinvolved with them.

University of NorthCarolina Professor and Education Policy Project fellow  Dr. Walter Farrelloffers a contrasting viewpoint.  Dr. Farrell oversees  severalsuccessful after-school programs in the Research Triangle area of  NorthCarolina: One, the Durham Scholars Program, serving Middle School Students, andthree other similar programs serving students from 4th Grade  through HighSchool.

Walter C. Farrell, Jr., Ph.D., M.S. P. H., isProfessor of  Social Work,  Public Health, and Public Policy andAssociate Director of the Urban  Investment Strategies Center at The FrankHawkins Kenan Institute of  Private Enterprise, Kenan-Flagler BusinessSchool, The University of North  Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Hisresearch interests include the study of  minority economic developmentissues, demographic change and interethnic  conflict in contemporarysociety, public education and public school  privatization, workforcediversity, and urban social issues. He has  published more than 150journal articles, book chapters, scholarly essays,  and research/technicalreports. His research and commentary have been cited  in several nationalprint and broadcast media, including The  Wall Street Journal, The CBSEvening News,/ and The Today Show on NBC.

He can be reached at: (919)962-8852

The Education PolicyProject offers to the national discussion of education  policy highquality analyses of school reform issues, and provides an  analyticalresource for educators, journalists, citizens and others  involved inpublic school reform. It is directed by  UWM Professor Alex Molnar, who can be reached at  414-229-4592.