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Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2020
This report examines the implementation of the Securing Opportunities for Academic Recovery (SOAR) program that operated during the summer of 2020 at 31 schools. The program was designed to mitigate academic deficits that resulted from the shutdown of schools due to the Coronavirus pandemic. SOAR was implemented in two phases: Recovery and Regain.…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Summer Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics
Wolanin, Natalie; Wade, Julie – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2015
The goal of the Howard Hughes Science Institute (HHMI) supported science program is to train one staff member to become a science lead within each of the elementary schools in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) district. The specific objectives of the first year of HHMI grant project were to: (1) provide approximately 20…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Grants, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Bellotti, Jeanne; Rosenberg, Linda; Sattar, Samina; Esposito, Andrea Mraz; Ziegler, Jessica – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2010
On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. Passed in response to the 2008 recession, the Act's purpose was to create jobs, pump money into the economy, and encourage spending. Through the Act, states received $1.2 billion in funding for the workforce investment system to provide…
Descriptors: Youth Employment, Focus Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Opportunities
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Garet, Michael S.; Wayne, Andrew J.; Stancavage, Fran; Taylor, James; Walters, Kirk; Song, Mengli; Brown, Seth; Hurlburt, Steven; Zhu, Pei; Sepanik, Susan; Doolittle, Fred – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
Student achievement in mathematics has been a focal concern in the United States for many years. The National Research Council's 2001 report and the recent report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008) both called attention to student achievement in mathematics, and both called for all students to learn algebra by the end of eighth…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Instruction
White, Richard N.; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2007
During the 2005-06 school year, Save the Children supported 47 local programs in its model literacy initiative. Twenty of the sites operated for the first time during the 2005-06 school year, while 15 began operation in the spring of the 2004-05 school year, and the remaining 12 began operation during the 2003-04 school year. Services at local…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, After School Programs, Literacy, Literacy Education