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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Yang, Hyunwoo; Xie, Xin – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
Drawing on administrative data and reading achievement data provided by two Midwestern school districts for three schools, we analyze the literacy impacts of a replicable summer reading program, Kids Read Now. The program includes both school-based and home-based components that together encourage students to remain engaged in reading high-quality…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Summer Programs, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement
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Florence Martin; Doreen Mushi; Julie Bacak; WeiChao Wang; Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell; Drew Polly – Educational Media International, 2024
Digital Safety refers to the knowledge and skills needed for the intentional protection of users in the digital environment. With children having access to digital devices at a young age, it has become essential for them to be educated on how to be safe in the digital world. Through a week-long summer camp on digital safety, elementary-age…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Summer Programs, Grade 3, Grade 4
Joseph R. Anthes – ProQuest LLC, 2021
More than a century of research exists on summer learning loss and summer learning programs. However, many schools continue to underutilize the summer as a period of time in which students with academic deficits can catch up to their peers. Few studies have explored the impacts of summer learning experiences on concentrated, school-level…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Rayelynn L. Brandl; Christina L. Pavlovich; Marisa L. Pedulla – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2024
Bringing Research into the Classroom (BRIC) engaged rural K-12 science teachers in sustained, mentored science research. BRIC's goal was to equip teachers with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to provide high-quality biomedical research opportunities for K-12 students and teachers. Programmatic elements included authentic, place-based,…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Trina Mitchener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative comparative study was to determine the differences in literacy and mathematics pass rates between AY 2021-2022 and AY 2022-2023, whether a 21st CCLC Program contributed to score differences and whether there is an interaction between them in a southeastern state. A two-way mixed ANOVA was used to answer the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Summer Programs, Literacy
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Jianjun Wang – Grantee Submission, 2025
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) launched the five-year "Puedes! Caminos, Cariño, y Carreras in a Post-Pandemic Era" grant in Fall 2022 to enhance educational opportunity and attainment for Hispanic students in California's southern Central Valley. Building on the successes of Year 1, the project achieved notable…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Opportunities
Scott Davies; Janice Aurini; Cathlene Hillier – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Can summer programs, as remedial supplements to regular schooling, extend learning opportunities and other benefits to disadvantaged students? To frame this question, we compare logics from "social reproduction" and "partial compensation" perspectives, and then apply them to a large mixed method study of four kinds of summer…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Summer Programs, Remedial Programs, Foreign Countries
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Jianjun Wang – Grantee Submission, 2024
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) was awarded a five-year grant, "Puedes! Caminos, Cariño, y Carreras in a Post-Pandemic Era", that began in Fall 2022, to support educational opportunity and attainment of Hispanic students. Guided by the program goals, Year 1 activities demonstrated effective project operations on multiple…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Attainment, Hispanic American Students, Grants
Bottoms, Bryndle L.; Luce, Hannah E.; Villanueva, Kristin M.; Herrera, Leonardo – Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, 2022
Freedom School Partners is a six-week summer program that has served the Charlotte, NC area since 2004. The purpose of this report is to present the external evaluation and findings of the six-week program in the summer of 2022. This evaluation is a joint effort between the Centers for Adolescent Literacies (CAL) and the Center for Educational…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Reynolds, Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quasi-experimental quantitative exploration study was to determine if there was a statistically and practically significant effect of an educational program on summer learning loss in reading and mathematics in grades five and six students. Also, the study aimed to determine whether growth was impacted by demographic variables…
Descriptors: Literacy, Mathematics Skills, Achievement Gains, Summer Programs
Morticia Brooks-Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Summer learning for many students in a large urban school district in Tennessee is an inequitable experience. Academic learning gaps in reading and mathematics may expand over the summer for economically disadvantaged and underrepresented minorities. One school district, recognizing an opportunity to narrow the gap, launched its Superintendent's…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Urban Areas, Attendance, Equal Education
Guryan, Jonathan; Kim, James S.; Quinn, David M. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
There are large gaps in reading skills by family income among school-aged children in the United States. Correlational evidence suggests that reading skills are strongly related to the amount of reading students do outside of school. Experimental evidence testing whether this relationship is causal is lacking. We report the results from a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Recreational Reading, Summer Programs, Grade 2
Jacquelyn Potvin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Youth from low-income, racially and ethnically diverse families are at increased risk for academic challenges and nutritionally inadequate diets. Summer programs offer an opportunity to foster interest and engage students in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) education while addressing summer learning loss.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Borman, Geoffrey D.; Yang, Hyunwoo – Online Submission, 2019
Drawing on administrative data and reading achievement data provided by two Midwestern school districts for three participating Kids Read Now schools, this successive year study provides the opportunity to study the reading outcomes of Kids Read Now students. Relying on data from the three schools, we contrast the reading outcomes for KRN student…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education
Linlin Li; Momo Hayakawa; Joan Freese; Beth Daniels; Gary Weiser; Kim Luttgen; Mai Chue Lor; Megan Schneider; Chun-Wei Huang; Emily Jensen – Grantee Submission, 2022
School closures because of natural phenomena, such as COVID-19, underscore long-standing gaps in access to science education in the United States of America, particularly for young students. When educators have to pivot to deliver virtual instruction, it is important to identify feasible remote learning strategies for science content across formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Science Education, Science Instruction
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