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Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can out of School Time Make a Difference?
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Sarah Komisarow – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
StudentU is a comprehensive program that provides education, nutrition, and social support services to disadvantaged middle and high school students outside of the regular school day. In this paper I investigate the effects of this multiyear program on the early high school outcomes of participating students by exploiting data from oversubscribed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nutrition Instruction, Social Support Groups, Disadvantaged
Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can out of School Time Make a Difference? EdWorkingPaper No. 20-289
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Sarah Komisarow – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
StudentU is a comprehensive program that provides education, nutrition, and social support services to disadvantaged students outside of the regular school day. In this paper I investigate the effects of this multi-year program on the early high school outcomes of participating students by exploiting data from oversubscribed admissions lotteries.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Nutrition Instruction, Social Support Groups, Disadvantaged
Adopted Grandparents: A Link Between the Past and the Future
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Whitley, Esstoya; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1976
Since 1968, the Adopted Grandparents program has been part of the curriculum for pupils enrolled at P. K. Yonge Laboratory School. Residents of a nearby nursing home are "adopted grandparents." The director reports that interaction with the children has had positive effects on the adopted grandparents. The children enjoy the experience. (Author/NG)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Gerontology, Elementary School Students