Feature Story

May 9, 2007

Complementary Learning Concept - A Linked Network of Learning Supports

Harvard Family Research Project:

We agree that to help close the achievement gap and for children and youth to be successful from birth through adolescence, there must be an array of learning supports around them beyond school.

We call this network of supports complementary learning.

Numerous complementary learning linkages that can enrich children's cognitive and social development throughout their preschool and school years, and beyond.

While advancing the overall concept of complementary learning, we are focusing our initial research and documentation efforts on the many linkages that involve either families or out-of-school time programs and activities---contexts that are areas of our expertise.

Learn more about complementary learning and the kinds of mechanisms that can facilitate these linkages and sustain their effectiveness in the Spring 2005 issue of our evaluation periodical, The Evaluation Exchange.