How should education officials define success for K-12 summer school programs? This question has become increasingly salient in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many states and districts implemented summer programs to help students recover academically and re-engage with school. Now, as ESSER funding dries up, states and school districts face tough decisions about which programs to keep, amend, or discontinue.
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This report provides an overview of the effects of the pandemic on English learners in the metro Atlanta area.
This report highlights research that suggests that ESSER funds played a role in improving academic outcomes in low-income districts during school year 2022-2023.
This brief estimates the effects of federal pandemic-relief funding (ESSER III) for K12 schools on district-level student achievement growth in 2023.
This brief provides a summary of changes to state strategic plans that focus on learning recovery.
This research brief provides an overview of changes in the distribution of absences for the 2022-23 school year and how absences vary across different groups of students and schools in North Carolina.
This brief provides an overview of summer learning research in North Carolina.
The purpose of this brief is to understand differences in student performance between large cities and students nationally over the last 20 years, from 2002 through 2022, as well as after the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also detail the possibilities of large city performance in the years to come.
This guide provides state leaders an overview of five actions necessary to establish lasting, effective student and staff wellbeing initiatives.
This map highlights some of the organizations and efforts around the country working in one or more of these five roles to provide students with the academic, social, mental health, and other supports they need to recover from the impacts and disruptions of the pandemic and thrive.