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…

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…

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…

The Summer High School Remediation Program was designed to provide remedial instruction for 11th and 12th grade pupils who were two or more years below grade level in reading and/or mathematics. Instruction was provided during the day at four high schools and, in addition, one of the schools conducted an evening session. All participants attended…

IN SUMMER 1967, ALL ENTERING STUDENTS WHO SCORED BELOW THE 11TH PERCENTILE ON THE BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, SCAT, AND ENGLISH CLASSIFICATION TEST WERE GIVEN ADDITIONAL READING, ARITHMETIC, AND GROUP NONVERBAL INTELLIGENCE TESTS. FROM THIS GROUP, 27 VOLUNTEERS WERE CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE IN A 6-WEEK, 4-HOUR DAILY PROGRAM OF REMEDIAL…

The 1989 New York City Pupils with Compensatory Educational Needs (PCEN) Summer Remediation Program met or exceeded each of its objectives. The program comprised basic skills and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses, serving 12,785 students in 880 classes in the regular high schools and an unspecified number of students at 73 off-site…

This report evaluates the 1984 Search for Elevation, Education & Knowledge (SEEK) prefreshman summer program at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), and describes its curriculum, staffing, recruitment of students, and objectives. Ninety-four students were enrolled: 73.4% were 18 or 19 years old; 73.0% were women; 90.4% were…

This document presents evaluations of summer Title I and Impact Aid reading, writing, and mathematics programs and their Parental Involvement component. The Title I and Impact Aid programs are briefly described as are the evaluation procedures, program activities, program materials, interviews with staff members, process evaluation findings, and…

Since July 1971, the Educational Testing Service has planned and conducted a study of compensatory reading programs in United States public schools. This document, an addendum to the final report for phase two of the study, includes a discussion of the relationship of classroom observations and effectiveness in the phase two sample of noteworthy…

An evaluation was conducted of the Atlanta Public Schools Sunclasses program, which was designed to reinforce basic reading and mathematics skills of retained or administratively placed students in grades 1-4, through 10 instructional television programs aired during a 6-week period in the summer of 1984. Supplementary activities implemented to…

The Summer Umbrella Program was designed to provide remedial instruction to children with demonstrable needs in reading, mathematics, and English as a second language. Instruction functioned on an individual or small group basis, employing a flexible, eclectic, multi-modality methodology. The instructional design was diagnostic/prescriptive. Pre…

This report evaluates a summer program funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) and administered by the Division of Special Education of the New York City Board of Education. The 1989 Chapter 1 Reading and Mathematics with Athletics summer program served 1,537 students with mild to moderate handicaps in…

This report is the result of a 2-year study of existing day care and summer feeding programs sponsored by the USDA undertaken to provide background information, define the current status, determine restraints and make recommendations for improvement in such programs. A history of the creation of the Special Food Service Program for Children…

The project, comprising five specific components, was based on the rationale that trained personnel, making a concentrated effort to correct reading deficiencies in content areas, as well as remedial situations, will increase student achievement and provide teachers the means to assist students to significantly reduce reading difficulties. The…