Evanston RoundTable
An after-school program at the Chicago Public Library that attracts 350-500 high-school students each week offers a hybrid of teen-driven choices and adult mentoring. Whether and how that type of program could be offered in Evanston was the subject of a brief debate on March 6 at a program sponsored by the McGaw Y and Youth Organizations Umbrella (Y.O.U.).
Dr. Penny Sebring of the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and Eric Brown, a Ph.D. candidate in Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy presented their findings from a three-year study of YOUMedia, a collaboration among the Chicago Public Library (space), the Digital Youth Network (most of the staff and mentors) and the MacArthur (funding)...