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Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes
by Laura Zakaras • Catherine H. Augustine • Jennifer Sloan Mccombs • Heather L. Schwartz • Paco Martorell • John F. PaneThe Wallace Foundation's National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Getting to Work on Summer Learning: Recommended Practices for Success
RAND is conducting a longitudinal study that evaluates the effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs in reducing summer learning loss, which contributes substantially to the achievement gap between low- and higher-income students. Based on evaluations of programs in six school districts, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Making Summer Count: How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning
by Catherine H. Augustine • Jennifer Sloan Mccombs • Susan J. Bodilly • Heather L. Schwartz • Brian McinnisResearch has shown that students' skills and knowledge often deteriorate during the summer months, with low-income students facing the largest losses. School districts and summer programming providers can benefit from the lessons learned by other programs in terms of developing strategies to maximiz... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing: Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity Initiative
by Lois M. Davis • Catherine H. Augustine • Heather L. Schwartz • Vincent J. Reina • Richard K. Green • Raphael W. BosticIn 2000, the MacArthur Foundation began the Window of Opportunity, a 20-year, $187 million philanthropic initiative intended to help preserve privately owned affordable rental housing. The authors of this report assess whether the initiative achieved its goals and identify lessons learned about effe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
by Alice Goode-Elman • Kelli Dunham • Penelope Dugan • Melanie K Finney • Ellen Schrecker • Raquel Ramkhelawan • Maxine Marshall • Lauren Vanett • Alice Derry • Michele Neff Hernandez • Elisa Clark Wadham • Deborah E Kaplan • P. C. Moorehead • Mimi Schwartz • Anne Bernays • Edie Butler • Debby Mayer • Sonia Jaffe Robbins • Barbara Marwell • Maggie Madagame • Roni Sherman Ramos • Doris Friedensohn • Nancy H Womack • Joan Michelson • Tracy Milcendeau • Merle Froschl • Andrea Hirshman • Molly A McEneny • Heather Slawecki • Kathleen Fordyce • Patricia Life • Nancy Shamban • Susanne Braham • Alice Radosh • Parvin Hajizadeh • Jean Y Leung • Joan Gussow • Kathryn Temple • Carrie L West • Lise Menn • Christine Silverstein • Tara SabharwalBecoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019