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Learning from Summer

The randomized analysis found a modest near-term mathematics effect from offering one summer that did not persist, no near- or longer-term effect on other measured outcomes after one summer, and no significant effect from offering two summers. Attendance and academic-time findings were exploratory correlational analyses, not randomized causal estimates.

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Catherine H. Augustine et al., RAND Corporation, Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth, 2016.

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The randomized analysis found a modest near-term mathematics effect from offering one summer that did not persist, no near- or longer-term effect on other measured outcomes after one summer, and no significant effect from offering two summers. Attendance and academic-time findings were exploratory correlational analyses, not randomized causal estimates.

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