Summer Learning to Maintain Grade Level Readiness

The National Center for Summer Education at www.summerlearning.org is concerned with loss of grade level readiness in reading, math and science and in identifying quality summer activities that help students maintain grade level readiness over the summer. To read articles on this subject, to view products, activities and take advantage of some free downloads if materials go to their site.

According to their history, the Center "started as an undergraduate student’s project and grew into a national movement. In 1992, Johns Hopkins University student Matthew Boulay recruited his fellow undergraduates to provide tutoring and academic support for Baltimore City public school students during the summer months. The program, called Teach Baltimore, definitely made a difference. Over the years, the Teach Baltimore program grew from a local program to a nationally recognized model.

In 1999, the organization began the nation’s first randomized study of a multi-year summer learning program. The evidence showed that the students who regularly attended the program for two years outscored the control group in standardized reading tests. In fact, those with a better-than-average attendance rate outperformed the control group by approximately 50 percent of one grade level."

Certainly, the information provided on their site supports summer learning programs, such as the reading based day camp sponsored by Fremont County Tutoring and mentioned previously on this site as a summer curriculum model. You will also find curriculum models on the centers site at http://www.summerlearning.org/, which can be adapted to your own summer home school program.


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