The Society for Research on Adolescence recently announced that A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth by SESP professor Barton J. Hirsch has won its 2006 Social Policy Award for best authored book. The book, which was co-published by the American Psychological Association and Teachers College Press in 2005, highlights Hirsch's findings about the value of after-school programs.The Social Policy Award for best journal article is being awarded to SESP professor Greg Duncan and graduate student E. Clark-Kauffman, along with co-authors L.A. Gennetian, V. Knox and W. Vargas, for "How Welfare Policies Affect Adolescents' School Outcomes: A Synthesis of Evidence from Experimental Studies," published in Journal of Research on Adolescence in 2004.
Both awards will be presented at the Society's biennial meeting on
March 24. The Society for Research on Adolescence is an international nonprofit professional organization established in 1984 to promote the understanding of adolescence through research. Two of the five awards presented by the Society this year honor SESP professors.According to the Society, these works were selected for the high standards of their research, the substantive and timely nature of their policy issues and the clarity of their implications for public policy.
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Barton Hirsch, professor of human development and social policy
Greg Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education
Last Modified: 8/14/09