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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
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Ross, John A.; Scott, Garth; Sibbald, Tim M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2012
We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of Struggling Schools, a user-generated approach to Comprehensive School Reform implemented in 100 low achieving schools serving disadvantaged students in a Canadian province. The results show that while Struggling Schools had a statistically significant positive effect on Grade 3 Reading achievement, d = 0.48…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Reading Achievement, Grade 3, Low Achievement