Summer Lost trailer: Web series to explore summer slide
The Notebook is producing a seven-part multimedia series about summer learning loss in Philadelphia. Here’s why.
Incoming high school freshmen get taste of college life
For about 55 Denver incoming high school freshman, the idea of using engineering software and a 3-D printer to transform their drawings into three-dimensional models seemed daunting. A summer camp aims to help them realized that despite their initial nervousness, they can achieve seemingly unreachable goals — including succeeding in college.
City schools to receive $7.6 million for extra learning time
After a long wait, New York City has received a $7.6 million state grant for a program that will keep approximately 5,000 low-income students in class for at least an extra 300 hours next year.
Improving education for the youngest by targeting the back office
Shared services is a relatively new approach in the early childhood arena, but one that is gaining momentum both in Colorado and nationally. Proponents believe the model will ultimately help providers — often small mom and pop shops — shed inefficient back-office practices so they can save time and money.
Vocabulary camp at Sharpe Elementary keeps students focused on reading
Sharpe’s summer program is one of about 30 summer enrichment, intervention, or speciality camps that Shelby County Schools are running this summer.
In pursuit of pre-K goal, New York City goes to great lengths to enlist yeshivas
As the city scurries to make 53,000 full-day pre-kindergarten slots available this September, every seat counts. But when officials tried to round up pre-K seats in Jewish schools, the largest group of non-public schools in the city, some ultra-Orthodox yeshivas hesitated to add full-day programs that would limit their time for religious instruction.
Across elementary schools, an array of motives for adding pre-K seats
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has made clear that he wants all kids to have the head start that full-day pre-kindergarten can provide. Elementary schools that are heeding his call to add seats cite a range of reasons, not all related to learning.
In its third year, an expanded Summer Quest looks to prove its academic effects
As New York City pushes to expand out-of-school time programming for middle schoolers, a summer camp with a mixed record will grow significantly next month.
Momentum for early learning picking up in Indianapolis
For a more than a decade, early learning advocates in Indianapolis who argued that more and better quality preschool could dramatically help kids start kindergarten more prepared to learn were deeply frustrated.
Marin City after-school program supports students’ emotional, academic growth
Located on the bottom floor of a housing project in one of the wealthiest counties in the country, a small after-school program is helping low-income students flourish. The program was cited as a national model by the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., because of its alignment with the Common Core standards.