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Stephens, Samuel A. – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2016
Summer learning experiences for school-age children can be provided in a variety of ways and settings, including summer school programs (often remedial), community-based programs (often a continuation of afterschool programs), and home-based programs (in which families are provided with information and resources to encourage reading, often run by…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Remedial Reading, Summer Schools
Children's Aid Society, 2012
Only 8 percent of children born into poverty graduate from college by the age of 25. Consider what that means for the estimated 500,000 New York City kids living in poverty. It is a fact: The better educated a person is, the better her chances of upward mobility. So when fewer than one in 10 children born into poverty reach their academic…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth, Urban Youth, Children