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Making summer count : how summer programs can boost children's learning /

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"Despite long-term and ongoing efforts to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and advantaged students, low-income students continue to perform at considerably lower levels than their higher-income peers in reading and mathematics. Research has shown that students' skills and kn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCombs, Jennifer Sloan, 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2011]
Series:Rand Corporation monograph series.
Subjects:
Summer schools > United States.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Evaluation & Assessment.
Summer schools.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Time, learning, learning decay, and summer learning loss
  • Effectiveness of summer learning programs
  • Costs of summer programming
  • Creating and maintaining summer learning programs
  • Conclusions and recommendations.