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| Ranking |
Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
Teach Baltimore provides summer academic enrichment for 330 K-2 students at six Baltimore City elementary schools. All current Teach Baltimore Summer Academy sites, which are public schools comprised of 95%+ African American students, receive Title I funding based on their high poverty status. |
| Goal / Mission |
Teach Baltimore seeks to prevent summer learning loss and promote academic achievement among early elementary school students. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
In November 2004, Teach Baltimore released a draft report of its rigorous longitudinal study of the impact of its Summer Academy program on the reading performance of students over a three-year period. Results of the independent study show that a random sample of kindergarten students who were selected by lottery to participate in the program over three consecutive summers (1999-2001) had significantly higher scores in reading than a control group of similar peers. Specifically, students who attended at least 2 of the 3 summers returned to school in the fall after the third summer with achievement scores approximately one-third of a standard deviation higher than those in the control group. The full draft report can be seen at http://www.summerlearning.org/programs/docs/TB_effects.pdf. |
| Categories |
Education / School Environment
Education / Student Performance K-12
Health / Children's Health
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| Organization(s) |
Center for Summer Learning |
| Source |
Promising Practices in Afterschool |
| Date of Implementation |
1992 |
| Geographic Type |
Urban |
| Location |
City: Baltimore, MD |
| Primary Contact |
Center for Summer Learning
Johns Hopkins University
3301 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-6228
http://www.summerlearning.org/
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| For more details |
http://epa.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/...
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| Target Audience |
Children, Racial / Ethnic Minorities |
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