As the end of the school year approaches and families face another pandemic summer, a new survey of afterschool and summer programs brings some encouraging news: Providers are more likely to be open and operating in person this summer and are more optimistic about a return to normal than in previous surveys. However, providers also anticipate…

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision-makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic. It begins with an at-a-glance view of an effective voluntary academic summer learning program structure (duration, class…

The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other institutional settings. The child nutrition programs support meals and snacks served to…

The FNS Research Corner provides a continuing series to summarize recently completed and current research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in the area of child nutrition. Summaries of recently completed research projects and in-progress research are provided in this article.

What does it take to transform a large, bureaucratic institution with a fractured culture and a compliance orientation into a nurturing, collaborative, vision-directed organization? In 2017, the California Department of Education's Expanded Learning Division (after-school and summer programs) took a radically different approach by cultivating the…

Newport News is a city of 193,000 people, located between Williamsburg and Norfolk in Southeastern Virginia. Newport News Public Schools (NNPS) educates approximately 30,500 children, grades Pre-K to 12, of whom 55.7% are Black, 29% are White, 9.9% are Hispanic, 2.9% are Asian, and 2.5% are other races. Newport News Public Schools' (NNPS') Special…

Identifies the general principles underlying the Council of Writing Program Administrators' summer workshop, and the ways in which they are currently being applied. (HTH)

This report discusses the administration of the 1977 summer food program for children. Widespread abuses in 1976 and earlier programs are reviewed. It is held that although some abuses did occur in 1977, these were fewer and less serious than before. Causes of the program abuses are discussed in detail, and include such factors as: (1) inadequate…

This Virginia State Department of Education publication providing summary data on programs, projects, services, and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act during the 1972-73 regular school session and the 1973 summer session is organized into four parts as follows: Part 1 is an…

An evaluation is given of an urban summer recreational program which was sponsored by a community college and designed to provide recreation, instruction, competition, and personal development for youth from 8 to 17 years. The program also offered inservice education to staff of community agencies working with youth. Activities included swimming,…

This Alabama State Annual Evaluation Report on programs, projects, services and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year 1974 (FY74) is organized into three parts. Part One is organized into an "Introduction" and 15 sub-sections discussing the following topics…

This State of Missouri Annual Evaluation Report on programs, projects, services, and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I Elementary Secondary Education Act is organized into 19 parts focusing on the following issues, respectively: focus--the Title I child, program monitoring, state Title I statistics for fiscal years 1968-1974,…

This State of Tennessee Annual Evaluation Report on programs, prijects, services and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year 1973 is organized into seven parts. Part One is an "Introduction". Part Two, "Process and Outcome of Title I Instructional…

This report on Alabama programs, projects, services, and activities funded in whole or in part under Title 1 of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 1973 is organized into two parts. Part 1 is organized into nine subsections, including an "Introduction" and discussions of the following topics: statistics for…

This Arkansas State Annual Evaluation Report on programs, projects, services, and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year 1973 is organized into four parts. Part One, "Basic Statistics" includes sub-sections focusing on the following topics: Local educational…