The Afterschool Alliance has updated its, “Evaluations Backgrounder: A Summary of Formal Evaluations of Afterschool Programs.” The update includes new data from ongoing evaluations of Citizen Schools, as well as recently released evaluations of After School Matters, CORAL, a state level evaluation of New Hampshire programs, and findings from two meta-analysis studies and a large-scale quasi-experimental study conducted by Deborah Lowe Vandell, Elizabeth Reisner and Kim Pierce. (Updated July 2008)