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Are We Pulling the Rug out from under Their Feet? What if Academic Interventions Are Removed?
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Lively Summers, Robin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
With the loss of revenue and education cut backs, school districts have faced the loss of supplemental academic supports such as after school tutoring and summer school programs. Up until recently research has focused on improving student outcomes by implementing supplemental instruction. There was little research available that examined the…
Descriptors: Intervention, School Districts, Tutoring, After School Programs
Negotiating the Global and National: Immigrant and Dominant-Culture Adolescents' Vocabularies of Citizenship in a Transnational World
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Myers, John P.; Zaman, Husam A. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: The current national debate over the purposes of civic education is largely tied to outdated notions of citizenship that overlook its changing nature under globalization. Civic education is based on a legalistic understanding of citizenship that emphasizes patriotism and the structures and functions of government. This study…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, International Studies
Enriching Summer Work: An Evaluation of the Summer Career Exploration Program
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McClanahan, Wendy S.; Sipe, Cynthia L.; Smith, Thomas J. – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
To determine the impact of the Summer Career Exploration Program (SCEP), a privately funded summer jobs program for low-income teens, P/PV examined the lives of over 1700 applicants. These youth were randomly assigned to participate or to not participate in SCEP in the summer of 1999, and their outcomes were compared at four and twelve months…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, Comparative Analysis