ARTICLE: The Multitasking Generation (Time magazine)

A 14 year-old girl: "You just multitask...my parents always tell me I can't do homework while listening to music, but they don't understand that it helps me concentrate"... more»

STUDY: The social context of children's participation in discretionary activities

Several family characteristics -- relating to fathers, gender, parental education, and ethnicity -- have been linked to children's access to discretionary, non-school activities, in the aggregate. Although the study focused on travel outcomes, there are strong implications here for family influences on the social organization of children's informal learning... more» paper» paper»

REPORT: A Child's Day - 2003 (Census)

"Children whose families live below poverty and with lower levels of family income are less likely to participate in extracurricular activities and to be academically on-track than children living in families above poverty and with higher levels of family income." Select indicators of child well being and daily activities... more»