Laura Zakaras: 3 books
by Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
During the past decade, arts advocates have relied on an instrumental approach to the benefits of the arts in arguing for support of the arts. This report evaluates these arguments and asserts that a new approach is needed. This new approach offers a more comprehensive view of how the arts create...
Getting to Work on Summer Learning
Recommended Practices for Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
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,...
by Jennifer Sloan McCombs, John F. Pane, Catherine H. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
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.