The Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, launched the Community Learning Initiative at his State of the City address in early 2008. This initiative plans to improve Boston's after-school participation by providing a better experience to its students. The success of the initiative involves creating the necessary platform for students to attend after-school programs. To do so, there was a need to unify the after-school organizations' information systems and a need to catalogue the offered activities. This project provides recommendations for those two issues, as well as exploring the social implications of the initiative. The project was directed by Boston's MIS department in conjunction with Oracle Corp., and encompassed all of Boston's public libraries, schools, and youth agencies. -

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Stein, Kenneth A.
• Soares, Alvaro
• Perry, Michele Alyceson
• Keck, David Gerald
• Zheng, Mingzhu

Subject

• Learning
• Computing
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042208-210422

Parola chiave

• Education, Elementary
• Organizational effectiveness

Advisor

• Gerstenfeld, Arthur
• Vernon-Gerstenfeld, Susan

Year

• 2008

Center

• Boston, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• City of Boston MIS

Date created

• 2008-04-22

luogo

• Boston

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright