The 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 student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.

Ready for Fall?: Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes (Rand Summer Learning)

Education & Teaching

Zakaras, Laura

McCombs, Jennifer Sloan

Pane, John F.

Augustine, Catherine H.

Schwartz, Heather L.

Martorell, Paco

Schools & Teaching

RAND Corporation

The National Summer Learning Project, launched by the Wallace Foundation in 2011, includes an assessment of the effectiveness of voluntary, district-led summer learning programs offered at no cost to low-income, urban elementary students. In this third report in a series, RAND researchers examined student outcomes at four points during and after the years the programs were held.

Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

Schweig, Jonathan

McEachin, Andrew

Siler-Evans, Kyle

<p>Media literacy (ML) education has emerged as a promising approach to slow Truth Decay, described as the diminishing role of facts, data, and analysis in political and civil discourse. However, teachers report a lack of guidance about implementing ML education, and rigorous research about what kinds of ML education work best remains limited. To address these gaps, this report presents a framework for implementing and evaluating ML educational efforts.</p>

Media Literacy Education to Counter Truth Decay: An Implementation and Evaluation Framework

Hamilton, Laura S.

Huguet, Alice

Baker, Garrett

Faxon-Mills, Susannah

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