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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
National Comprehensive Center, 2024
Intentionally designed afterschool and summer programs can benefit students' social-emotional skills, accelerate their learning, and even increase their school attendance during the school year. This infographic touches on the value of these programs, possible barriers that might limit access to students, and states with innovative models.
Descriptors: After School Programs, After School Education, Achievement Gains, Social Emotional Learning
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Leech, Catherine – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2019
This project seeks to answer the question of which intervention practices are most effective for raising the academic attainment of GCSE maths pupils in England. The findings will have the potential to alleviate teacher workload and to raise pupil attainment by refining the intervention schemes employed in schools. The results will therefore also…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Educational Attainment, Exit Examinations
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Lin, Chunn-Ying; Hsieh, Ya-Heng; Chen, Cheng-Hung – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
Many Western researchers have found that the gaps in the learning progress between students from different socioeconomic statuses primarily occur due to the accumulated effects of long summer vacations, rather than during the school years. However, it remains to be seen whether these findings can be cross-culturally applied to children in Taiwan.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summer Programs, After School Education, Program Effectiveness
Terzian, Mary; Giesen, Lindsay; Mbwana, Kassim – Child Trends, 2009
Out-of-school time programs can provide valuable supports to the positive development of children and youth. These programs can help cultivate social and emotional skills, and further students' academic achievements. Furthermore, the safe environment provided by out-of-school time programs can offer children and youth, especially those living in…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Low Income Groups, African Americans, Summer Programs
Davidson, Judith; Koppenhaver, David – 1993
Resulting from the Center for Adolescent Literacy's investigation of reading programs that refuse to tolerate acquiescence to the inevitability of reading failure, the second edition of this book describes what works and why in adolescent literacy, through case studies and through observations gleaned from extensive literature searches and site…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Education, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs