Project
National Summer Learning Project
Jun 21, 2012
The National Summer Learning Project evaluated the implementation and effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs in five school districts. This seventh report in a series summarizes longitudinal findings and offers implications for policy and practice. Three years after the summer program, the magnitude of the academic benefits for attenders decreased but still can be considered educationally meaningful.
A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes from the National Summer Learning Project
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The National Summer Learning Project (NSLP) examined the implementation and effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs developed by five school districts — Boston, Massachusetts; Dallas, Texas; Duval County, Florida; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Rochester, New York — and their local community partners. The study spanned three phases. The RAND research team (1) collected formative data for strengthening the five summer programs in 2011 and 2012; (2) examined student outcomes after one summer (2013) and after two summers of programming (2014 and 2015); and (3) examined student outcomes in spring 2017, at the end of three school years after the second summer of programming. This seventh report in a series summarizes the findings of this third phase in the context of earlier findings and offers implications for policy and practice. Overall longitudinal findings show that, by spring 2017, the academic benefits for high attenders decreased in magnitude and were not statistically significant — although when benchmarked against typical achievement gains at the same grade level, they remained large enough to be educationally meaningful.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Student Outcomes: Findings and Interpretation
Chapter Three
Conclusions and Implications for Policy and Practice
The research described in this report was sponsored by the Wallace Foundation and conducted by RAND Education and Labor.
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