Spotlight on Summer

Visit Change.gov to post your comments in support of summer learning and funding for STEP UP

 
2009 Excellence in Summer Learning Award Application Deadline Extended
Are you part of an exemplary summer learning program?  Applications for the 2009 Excellence in Summer Learning Award are due January 21.

Bestseller Highlights Importance of Summer Learning
Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers: The Story of Success features Karl Alexander's research on summer learning
Read more in our blog.

 


 

Measuring Success

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What's your favorite childhood summer memory?

Help us communicate the importance of summer learning. Take a minute to share a favorite childhood summer experience and join our efforts to ensure that every child has an enriching, memorable summer.

 

Focus on Excellence

AIM HIGH - San Francisco, CA

Morry’s Camp in White Plains, New York, is a
tuition-free summer sleepaway camp and year-
round program that focuses on academic
enrichment, recreation, and youth development
for children from disadvantaged communities in
New York City.  Since its inception in 1996, all
of the Morry’s Camp graduates have completed
high school, 80 percent enroll in institutions of
higher education, and 100 percent of the
student  who enrolled in college have remained
in college.


 Learn more about Morry’s Camp.

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It's a fact...

"Two-thirds of the achievement gap between lower- and higher- income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities."

 

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