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Direct linkJessy 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
Peer reviewedGomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
Gomez, Celia J.; Cannon, Jill S.; Bongard, Michelle – RAND Corporation, 2021
The Big Lift™ (Big Lift) is a preschool-third-grade collective impact initiative in San Mateo County, California. The initiative is a partnership of the County of San Mateo, the San Mateo County Office of Education, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Launched in 2012, the initiative aims to boost children's reading proficiency by third…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Education, Intervention, Reading Programs
Download full textMcBride, Judith W.; Baker, Anita M. – Afterschool Matters, 2020
In the first learning community session since last summer's programs, foundation staff at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving in Connecticut invite providers to share their news. "What worked? What challenges did you see?" Seasoned providers highlight field trips taken, books introduced, newsletters crafted by youth and shared with…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Barriers, Equal Education
Faxon-Mills, Susannah; Whitaker, Anamarie A.; Cannon, Jill S.; Gomez, Celia J.; Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2018
The Big Lift is a collective impact initiative extending from preschool to third grade in San Mateo County, California. The collective impact effort consists of people and organizations from various sectors uniting to tackle a single, complicated societal problem -- in this case, third grade reading achievement. The initiative is a partnership of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Primary Education, Early Childhood Education
BELTON, JOHN; GOLDBERG, SIDNEY – 1966
A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED TO A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE COMPOSED OF PARENTS OF 50 CHILDREN (TWO PUPILS RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM EACH OF 25 HEAD START CLASSES). COMPILED FROM THE QUESTIONNAIRE, STATISTICS ARE REPORTED CONCERNING (1) REASONS FOR ENROLLMENT OF CHILDREN, (2) DEGREE OF PARENT INVOLVEMENT, (3) PARENTS' PERCEPTION OF THE HELP GIVEN…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Parent Attitudes, Parent School Relationship, Preschool Education
HILLSON, HENRY T. – 1967
THE COLLEGE BOUND PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO DEVELOP THE COLLEGE POTENTIAL OF DISADVANTAGED NINTH- AND 10TH-GRADE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. BEFORE ENTERING THE PROGRAM, 1800 "ACADEMIC RISK" STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN A SUMMER SESSION TO EASE THEIR TRANSITION FROM JUNIOR TO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. MOST OF THEM WERE ENTERING HIGH SCHOOL WITH READING…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth, English Curriculum
Medford Public Schools, MA. – 1969
Operation RISE (Recreation-Instruction-Service-Enrichment) was an ESEA Title I Program comprised of services to 660 (from grades 11-12) educationally disadvantaged elementary and secondary school students of Medford, Massachusetts during a six-week period in the summer of 1969. In this period each student was given remedial instruction in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Enrichment, Educational Diagnosis, Educationally Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Education
Center for Literacy, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1993
A family literacy demonstration project was conducted to offer family literacy classes in three public schools in Philadelphia. Instruction was offered for 2.5 hours per day 4 days per week for parents of kindergartners and first graders from January to June and for parents and children together in July. The project was designed to help adults…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Family Involvement
