Inhalt: | Provides an up-to-date account of what research has to say about summer learning loss, the conditions in low-income children's homes and communities that impede learning over the summer months, and best practices in summer programming with lessons on how to strengthen program evaluations Schools, families, and inequality : strong empirical patterns in search of strong theory / Douglas B. Downey -- Summer setback in Baltimore : a review and update / Karl Alexander and Barbara F. Condliffe -- School's out : summer learning loss across grade levels and school contexts in the United States today / Allison Atteberry and Andrew McEachin -- Contextualizing summer learning inequality : the view from Canada / Scott Davies, Janice Aurini, and Emily Milne -- Summer learning and the opportunity gap / Sarah Pitcock -- A national review of summer school policies and the evidence supporting them / Geoffrey D. Borman, Alex Schmidt, and Michelle Hosp -- The sunny home advantage : class differences in resources to support summer learning / Aaron M. Pallas -- Learning outside of school : the implications of shadow education for seasonal learning patterns / Joseph J. Merry, Claudia Buchmann, and Dennis J. Condron -- Selecting summer : how elementary school parents make choices about summer programs / Barbara F. Condliffe -- The roles of summertime in child obesity : risks and opportunities / Amy Bohnert, Nicole Zarrett, and Amy Heard -- Summertime and youth's psychosocial well-being / Amy Bohnert, Dorothy McLeod, Heather Marshall, and Kathryn Grant -- Best practices in summer programming / Andrew McEachin, Catherine Augustine, and Jennifer McCombs -- Year-round school calendars : effects on summer learning, achievement, parents, teachers, and property values / Paul von Hippel -- Summer learning and programming in rural settings / Judy B. Cheatham and Doris T. Williams -- An introduction to cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses for summer learning programs / Linda Goetze -- A review and analysis of evaluations of summer programs / Marc L. Stein and Ean Fonseca -- Facilitating policymakers' use of the evidence on summer loss and summer programs / Emily Acman, Thomas G. White, and James S. Kim -- Forging a path ahead : a summer learning agenda for the 21st century / Matthew Boulay, Karl Alexander, Sarah Pitcock, and Marc L. Stein |
