Learning from summer
Subtitle: effects of voluntary summer learning programs on low-income urban youth
By: Catherine H. Augustine, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, John F. Pane, Heather L. Schwartz, Jonathan Schweig, Andrew McEachin, Kyle Siler-Evans
Series: RAND summer learning series
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Santa Monica, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780833096609
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Summer schools; Low-income students; Academic achievement
Other titles: Effects of voluntary summer learning programs on low-income urban youth
Description: "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 effects of district-led programs on academic achievement, social-emotional competencies, and behavior over the near and long term. All students in the study were in the third grade as of spring 2013 and enrolled in a public school in one of five urban districts: Boston; Dallas; Duval County, Florida; Pittsburgh; or Rochester, New York. The study follows these students from third to seventh grade; this report describes outcomes through fifth grade. The primary focus is on academic outcomes but students' social-emotional outcomes are also examined, as well as behavior and attendance during the school year." --Publisher's website.
Notes: "RR-1557-WF"--Cover page 4.

"Commissioned by the Wallace Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-86)
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Summer programs in practice : implementation findings; title: Attendance : a critical element of summer programming; title: Outcomes after one and two summers of programming : causal findings; title: Factors that influence outcomes : insights from correlational analyses; title: Overall conclusions and implications.