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Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2024
High-quality afterschool and summer learning programs are effective ways to support children and teens and accelerate their academic growth. In fact, the American Rescue Plan prioritized a significant amount of funding for out-of-school time programs because of the evidence of their effectiveness. Over the past few years, state educational…
Descriptors: After School Programs, After School Education, Summer Programs, State Aid
Jura, Matthew; Gerhardt, Ira – PRIMUS, 2022
In summer 2013, Manhattan College introduced an online summer "bridge to calculus" course for incoming first-year students in science, engineering, and mathematics education who marginally did not receive a calculus recommendation based on a mathematics placement test. In this paper, we describe the development of the bridge course and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Calculus
Jessy Newman; Briana Garcia; Eliza Laible; Deborah Moroney – Wallace Foundation, 2024
In 2019, the Texas legislature passed a historic education finance bill that included an initiative to add up to 30 days to the school-year calendar. One way districts can do this is to offer a voluntary summer learning program. In 2020, the American Institutes for Research, with support from The Wallace Foundation, launched the six-year Texas…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, State Policy
Kurlaender, Michal; Lusher, Lester; Case, Matthew – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university system, enacted "Early Start," requiring students needing remediation to enroll in such courses in the summer before their freshman year. We…
Descriptors: State Universities, Remedial Programs, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness
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

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

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
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
Kurlaender, Michal; Lusher, Lester; Case, Matthew – Grantee Submission, 2019
Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university system, enacted "Early Start," requiring students needing remediation to enroll in such courses in the summer before their freshman year. We…
Descriptors: State Universities, Remedial Programs, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness
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
Muzzi, Cindy; Gallagher, Brenda McSparrin; Zoblotsky, Todd – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2021
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program, funded through the U.S. Department of Education, provides academic enrichment opportunities outside of the regular school day to help students meet state and local performance standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and math. This report summarizes the 2019-2020…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, After School Programs, Enrichment Activities
Center for Civic Education, 2018
This one-page fact sheet presents findings from a two-phase evaluation of the week-long We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution summer institutes during 2009. The institutes evaluated were the Grand Teton Institute, the Iowa Institute, the National Middle School Institute, and two National Elementary Institutes. Two hundred upper…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Morton, Benterah C.; Byrd, Kelly O.; Allison, Elizabeth; Green, André M. – Current Issues in Education, 2021
Each summer families across the globe send their children to summer camps and daycares for what amounts to babysitting. This study takes the discussion beyond babysitting and explores a unique summer enrichment program offered to rising second through fifth grade students in a modified enrichment camp model. During the four-week program, students…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Enrichment Activities, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Saxena, Preeta; Ramesh, S. K.; Durdella, Nathan; Carpenter, Angela – Grantee Submission, 2021
Attract, Inspire, Mentor and Support Students (AIMS[superscript 2]), a grant-funded program from the U.S. Department of Education for the HSI-STEM and Articulation Programs, focuses on improving outcomes for Hispanic and low-income students in STEM. Using a quasi-experimental design (QED) approach, this study examined outcomes between students who…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students, Outcomes of Education