Academic Achievement Gap

Summer Learning
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Commit Now to Get Summer Programming Right
Heather L. Schwartz @schwartz_hl, Catherine H. Augustine, Jennifer Sloan McCombs
Apr 15, 2021
The RAND Blog
When summer programs are targeted to needs, intentionally designed, and well attended, they produce positive outcomes in math and reading. But these programs need federal support, and they require early planning.
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Academic Achievement Gap
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The Potential for Early Years Programmes to Close the Disadvantage Gap Is Under-Examined
Megan Sim, Julie Belanger
Oct 12, 2018
Schools Week
Many schools are looking to close the disadvantage gap in their communities, but they need more evidence about what actually works. Research that helps policymakers and practitioners understand how early years interventions can promote equity and close the disadvantage gap is needed.
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Summer Learning
blog
Summer Learning Day: Stopping the Summer Slide
Jun 19, 2015
RAND is conducting the first-ever assessment of large-scale, voluntary, district-run, summer learning programs serving low-income elementary students. The results may help districts, educators, and policymakers make better decisions about funding and implementing programs to stop summer learning loss.
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Summer Learning
blog
Ask Me Anything: Catherine Augustine on Summer Learning
Jul 3, 2014
With summer now underway, RAND's Catherine Augustine hosted an
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Educational Equity
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Narrowing the Income Achievement Gap
Heather L. Schwartz @schwartz_hl
Jun 12, 2014
Education Week
The achievement gap between children from the highest- and lowest-income families has substantially grown since 1960. The income achievement gap is now about twice the size of the black-white achievement gap.
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The very fact that Russia felt the need to resort to overt, large-scale conventional force in Ukraine—despite years of operating there in the gray zone—demonstrates that at least in Russian president Vladimir Putin's mind, these ambiguous uses of force in Ukraine failed to achieve their desired ends.

Raphael S. Cohen

Director, Strategy and Doctrine Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE

Source: The National Interest

Centering Putin's interests and catering to his emotional state violates a fundamental bargaining precept: Never negotiate against yourself. To be clear, it's good to understand your opponent's perspective. But first, negotiate for your interests, not for theirs. Second, learn what they really want before offering concessions. Third, make sure they can actually deliver.

Raymond Kuo

Political Scientist

Source: RealClearDefense

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Academic Achievement Gap

Commit Now to Get Summer Programming Right

The Potential for Early Years Programmes to Close the Disadvantage Gap Is Under-Examined

Summer Learning Day: Stopping the Summer Slide

Ask Me Anything: Catherine Augustine on Summer Learning

Narrowing the Income Achievement Gap

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