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Summertime : confronting risks, exploring solutions / Ron Fairchild, Gil G. Noam, issue editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New directions for youth development 1533-8916 ; no. 114.
- New directions for youth development, 1533-8916 ; no. 114
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vacation schools--United States.
- Vacation schools.
- Summer schools--United States.
- Summer schools.
- Youth--Recreation.
- United States.
- Interdisciplinary approach in education.
- Youth--Recreation--United States.
- Youth.
- Youth in development.
- Youth development.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass/Wiley, [2007]
- Summary:
- This issue explores the impact of the summer when the regular school year ends and public support for children declines, on young people. On average, students achievement test scores are about one month lower when they return to school on the fall than when they left in the spring, according to a research synthesis. This decline in knowledge, known as summer learning loss, is typically more pronounced for math than for reading. Contributors to this issue examine the research on potential risks youth face during the summer, such as regressing on measures of knowledge and health.
- Contents:
- Summer learning and its implications: insights from the beginning school study / Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle, Linda Steffel Olson
- Childhood body mass index gain during the summer versus during the school year / Douglas B. Downey, Heather R. Boughton
- Characteristics of effective summer learning programs in practice / Susanne R. Bell, Natalie Carrillo
- Summer programming in rural communities: unique challenges / Ruthellen Phillips, Stacey Harper, Susan Gamble
- Collaboration: leveraging resources and expertise / Anne Byrne, Jane Hansberry
- Summer library reading programs / Carole D. Fiore
- Using evaluation to improve program quality based on the BELL model / Earl Martin Phalen, Tiffany M. Cooper
- Finding the resources for summer learning programs / M. Jane Sundius.
- Notes:
- "Summer 2007"
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780470182376
- 0470182377
- OCLC:
- 159938561
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