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Download full textCallen, Ian; Carbonari, Maria V.; DeArmond, Michael; Dewey, Daniel; Dizon-Ross, Elise; Goldhaber, Dan; Isaacs, Jazmin; Kane, Thomas J.; Kuhfeld, Megan; McDonald, Anna; McEachin, Andrew; Morton, Emily; Muroga, Atsuko; Staiger, Douglas O. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
To make up for pandemic-related learning losses, many U.S. public school districts have increased enrollment in their summer school programs. We assess summer school as a strategy for COVID-19 learning recovery by tracking the academic progress of students who attended summer school in 2022 across eight districts serving 400,000 students. Based on…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, COVID-19, Pandemics, Summer Programs
McEachin, Andrew; Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer – American Educator, 2018
The evidence suggests that many types of summer learning programs have the potential to reduce summer learning losses and perhaps create learning gains. However, implementing a summer program does not guarantee positive effects on students' learning. A key question then is: What factors make a summer learning program effective? This article, drawn…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Performance Factors, Best Practices
Direct linkAugustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Pane, John F.; Schwartz, Heather L.; Schweig, Jonathan; McEachin, Andrew; Siler-Evans, Kyle – RAND Corporation, 2016
The National Summer Learning Project, launched by the Wallace Foundation in 2011, includes an assessment of the effectiveness of voluntary, district-led summer learning programs offered at no cost to low-income, urban elementary students. The study, conducted by RAND, uses a randomized controlled trial and other analytic methods to assess the…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Students, Urban Education, Achievement Gap
Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Pane, John F.; Schwartz, Heather L.; Schweig, Jonathan; McEachin, Andrew; Siler-Evans, Kyle – RAND Corporation, 2016
The National Summer Learning Project, launched by the Wallace Foundation in 2011, includes an assessment of the effectiveness of voluntary, district-led summer learning programs offered at no cost to low-income, urban elementary students. The study, conducted by RAND, uses a randomized controlled trial and other analytic methods to assess the…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Low Income Students, Urban Education, Achievement Gap
