More than anything, staffers make the difference,” Eva Mitnick, director of Los Angeles Public Library’s engagement and learning division, said to me about the library’s after-school Student Zone ...

As the school year gets into full swing, kids and parents may start to worry about grades. Brooklyn News has compiled a list of places with free after-school tutoring – whether you want to keep up or ...

Get ready for back-to-school by setting up a personalized school supply center to store items such as pencils, pens, markers and scissors. This project is both creative and functional and provides a ...

5 shots before racing down Tenney Street. It was just after 5 o'clock, and three children were at a after-school homework center standing on the deck outside. 32/Chief Soloman 9:30 the kids were very ...

Homework center opens at library: The North Torrance Public Library on Thursday held an opening ceremony for a homework center, made possible by an $80,000 donation from the ExxonMobil Foundation.

WHITTIER – The public library’s Homework Center and an after-school program at Dexter Middle School will share $238,755 in federal funding secured by Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Lakewood, from an ...

Cindy Mediavilla spent 18 years as a public librarian and managed the Friendly Stop, a homework center for Orange (Calif.) Public Library, in the early 1990s. She has been studying after-school ...

At a small table between stacks of paperbacks and beneath an enormous map of the world in Minneapolis’ Franklin Library, fifth grader Bintou Dibba concentrates on her homework for the next day.

MINNEAPOLIS — Ben Franklin once said that nothing is certain but death and taxes, but students know that homework runs a strong third. "Work" gets most of the attention, but "home" also plays an ...