The summer slide
Subtitle: what we know and can do about summer learning loss
By: edited by Karl Alexander, Sarah Pitcock, Matthew Boulay, foreword by Paul Reville
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780807757994
Subjects: Children with social disabilities; Education; Summer schools
Description: Provides an up-to-date account of what research has to say about summer learning loss, the conditions in low-income children's homes and communities that impede learning over the summer months, and best practices in summer programming with lessons on how to strengthen program evaluations.

This book is an authoritative examination of summer learning loss, featuring original contributions by scholars and practitioners at the forefront of the movement to understand, and stem, the "summer slide". The contributors provide an up-to-date account of what research has to say about summer learning loss, the conditions in low-income children's homes, and communities that impede learning over the summer months, and best practices in summer programming with lessons on how to strengthen program evaluations. The authors also show how information or program costs can be combined with student outcome data to inform future planning and establish program cost-effectiveness. This book will help policymakers, school administrators, and teachers in their efforts to close academic achievement gaps and improve outcomes for all students. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Schools, families, and inequality : strong empirical patterns in search of strong theory / Douglas B. Downey; title: Summer setback in Baltimore : a review and update / Karl Alexander and Barbara F. Condliffe; title: School's out : summer learning loss across grade levels and school contexts in the United States today / Allison Atteberry and Andrew McEachin; title: Contextualizing summer learning inequality : the view from Canada / Scott Davies, Janice Aurini, and Emily Milne; title: Summer learning and the opportunity gap / Sarah Pitcock; title: A national review of summer school policies and the evidence supporting them / Geoffrey D. Borman, Alex Schmidt, and Michelle Hosp; title: The sunny home advantage : class differences in resources to support summer learning / Aaron M. Pallas; title: Learning outside of school : the implications of shadow education for seasonal learning patterns / Joseph J. Merry, Claudia Buchmann, and Dennis J. Condron; title: Selecting summer : how elementary school parents make choices about summer programs / Barbara F. Condliffe; title: The roles of summertime in child obesity : risks and opportunities / Amy Bohnert, Nicole Zarrett, and Amy Heard; title: Summertime and youth's psychosocial well-being / Amy Bohnert, Dorothy McLeod, Heather Marshall, and Kathryn Grant; title: Best practices in summer programming / Andrew McEachin, Catherine Augustine, and Jennifer McCombs; title: Year-round school calendars : effects on summer learning, achievement, parents, teachers, and property values / Paul von Hippel; title: Summer learning and programming in rural settings / Judy B. Cheatham and Doris T. Williams; title: An introduction to cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses for summer learning programs / Linda Goetze; title: A review and analysis of evaluations of summer programs / Marc L. Stein and Ean Fonseca; title: Facilitating policymakers' use of the evidence on summer loss and summer programs / Emily Acman, Thomas G. White, and James S. Kim; title: Forging a path ahead : a summer learning agenda for the 21st century / Matthew Boulay, Karl Alexander, Sarah Pitcock, and Marc L. Stein.