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Julie Fitz; Julie Woods; Naomi Duran; Jennifer McCombs – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
Student participation in summer programming can be an effective way to address students' academic and developmental needs. When well implemented and well attended, summer enrichment programs, academic programs, and employment programs have demonstrated positive outcomes for youth in areas related to program content, including academic achievement…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Regional Characteristics
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Julie Fitz; Julie Woods; Naomi Duran; Jennifer McCombs – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
As federal funding for summer learning as a pandemic recovery strategy phases out, state governments face decisions about their future role in supporting students' access to quality summer learning opportunities. This brief is based on the full report, "How States Are Expanding Quality Summer Learning Opportunities," and summarizes…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Regional Characteristics
Achieve, Inc., 2009
College and career readiness has become a unifying principle for education reform leaders across the country. A majority of states have made it a top policy priority, with an increasing number of national foundations and education reform advocates supporting this work. To help state leaders build strategies for sustaining their education agendas…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Sustainability, Educational Strategies
Hambleton, Ronald K.; Cadman, Sharon F. – 1994
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a congressionally mandated national assessment program, can provide valuable data to educational policy makers in Massachusetts and other New England states concerning the status of their educational reform initiatives and performance standards. The three purposes of this paper are: (1) to…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Utilization
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Malden. Early Learning Services. – 1999
As states work to provide public funds for early care and education programs, they need data on the current system to better provide a system that supports parents' need to work, promotes healthy child development, and ensures the educational quality of all early education and care programs. This report provides Massachusetts' policy makers with a…
Descriptors: Brain, Data Collection, Day Care, Early Childhood Education