LePage & Jordan: Designing Fun-Filled Summer Learning Programs That Students Will Want to Attend
. As school districts and states scramble to use federal COVID relief aid to help students recover academically this summer, they’ll need to address a core challenge of summer learning: Too often, students don’t show up. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated the impact of voluntary, in-person summer programs in five urban districts in 2013 and 2014. They found that 20 percent of students never attended the first summer, and half didn’t come the second summer. For those who attended at least 80 percent of the time both summers, however, improvement was significant: Gains in reading and ...
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