Creating and Maintaining Summer Learning Programs Lessons from the Field

This chapter draws on our field work to provide insights into district decisionmaking on summer learning programs. We synthesize interview data on why districts and others do, or do not, establish summer learning programs. For those that do provide programming, we summarize the barriers they faced i...

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Published inMaking Summer Count p. 57
Main Authors JENNIFER SLOAN MCCOMBS, CATHERINE H. AUGUSTINE, HEATHER L. SCHWARTZ, SUSAN J. BODILLY, BRIAN MCINNIS, DAHLIA S. LICHTER, AMANDA BROWN CROSS
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published RAND Corporation 13.06.2011
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Behavioral sciences
Cognitive processes
Cognitive psychology
Curricula
Economic disciplines
Economics
Education
Education politics
Educational administration
Educational institutions
Educational methods
Educational personnel
Educational testing
Educators
Employment
Finance
Financial economics
Formal education
Funding
Labor economics
Learning
Middle schools
Occupations
Pedagogy
Psychology
School districts
School schedules
School year
Schools
Summer schools
Teacher recruitment
Teachers
Test scores
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Summary:This chapter draws on our field work to provide insights into district decisionmaking on summer learning programs. We synthesize interview data on why districts and others do, or do not, establish summer learning programs. For those that do provide programming, we summarize the barriers they faced in creating, sustaining, and scaling their programs and discuss how they overcame these barriers. We then refer back to the quality components presented in Chapter Three in considering how the programs we studied strove to ensure quality. This information should be useful to school district leaders and others considering or planning summer learning programs.
ISBN:0833052667
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