Summertime
Subtitle: confronting risks, exploring solutions
By: Ron Fairchild, Gil G. Noam, issue editors.
Contributors: Fairchild, Ron.; Noam, Gil G.
Series: New directions for youth development -- 114; New directions for youth development -- no. 114
Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Wiley
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780470182376
Subjects: Vacation schools -- United States.; Youth -- Recreation -- United States.; Youth development.; Interdisciplinary approach in education.; Summer schools -- United States.; Youth in development.
Description: This issue explores the impact of the summer when the regular school year ends and public support for children declines, on young people. On average, students achievement test scores are about one month lower when they return to school on the fall than when they left in the spring, according to a research synthesis. This decline in knowledge, known as summer learning loss, is typically more pronounced for math than for reading. Contributors to this issue examine the research on potential risks youth face during the summer, such as regressing on measures of knowledge and health.
Notes: "Summer 2007"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Summer learning and its implications: insights from the beginning school study / Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Linda Steffel Olson; value: Childhood body mass index gain during the summer versus during the school year / Douglas B. Downey, Heather R. Boughton; value: Characteristics of effective summer learning programs in practice / Susanne R. Bell, Natalie Carrillo; value: Summer programming in rural communities: unique challenges / Ruthellen Phillips, Stacey Harper, Susan Gamble; value: Collaboration: leveraging resources and expertise / Anne Byrne, Jane Hansberry; value: Summer library reading programs / Carole D. Fiore; value: Using evaluation to improve program quality based on the BELL model / Earl Martin Phalen, Tiffany M. Cooper; value: Finding the resources for summer learning programs / M. Jane Sundius.