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The Wallace Foundation's National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.
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The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase collaboration, access, quality, information sharing, and sustainability in their out-of-school-time systems. The first in this three-volume series describes the cities' early work under the grant and analyzes the conditions and activities that contributed to their progress in building a coordinated system of services to meet the initiative's goals.
After-school programs --United States --Case studies. --- School improvement programs --United States --Case studies. --- Summer school --United States --Case studies. --- After-school programs --- Summer school --- School improvement programs --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education, Special Topics --- Summer schools --- After-school education --- Afterschool programs --- Schools --- University extension
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Research has shown that students' skills and knowledge often deteriorate during the summer months, with low-income students facing the largest losses. School districts and summer programming providers can benefit from the lessons learned by other programs in terms of developing strategies to maximize program effectiveness and quality, student participation, and strategic partnerships and funding.
Education. --- Summer schools -- United States. --- Summer schools. --- Summer schools --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Education, Special Topics
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The New York City Department of Education asked RAND to conduct an independent longitudinal evaluation of its 5th-grade promotion policy. The findings of that study, conducted between March 2006 and August 2009, provide a comprehensive view of the policy's implementation and its impact on student outcomes, particularly for students at risk of retention and those who were retained in grade.
Promotion (School) --- Grade repetition --- Grade retention --- Holding back (Education) --- Non-promotion (School) --- Repeating grades --- Repetition, Grade --- Retention of students (Holding students back in grade) --- Student retention (Holding students back in grade) --- Promotion in school --- School promotion --- Student promotion --- Slow learning children --- Underachievers --- Grading and marking (Students)
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Technology transfer --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Technology - General --- Technological transfer --- Transfer of technology --- Diffusion of innovations --- Inventions --- Research, Industrial --- Technology and international relations --- Foreign licensing agreements --- Technological forecasting --- Technological innovations --- Technology --- International cooperation. --- International cooperation
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