By Bracey Harris, Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report, Lillian Mongeau, The Hechinger Report and Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report (Via NBC News) For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by a brief pause before classes […]
By Aaron Philip Dworkin, Chief Executive Officer at NSLA Summer school. The term is often associated with all things remedial, boring, mandatory, punitive, and, in many cases, inequitable. However, summer school options are a seemingly well-intentioned new focus for many state legislatures and school districts looking at expanded learning time as an allowable use of […]
Contact: Laura Johnson, NSLA Carolyn Phenicie, CCSSO CCSSO, NSLA Launch Network to Support Summer Learning WASHINGTON, DC (April 26, 2021) – The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) are launching new efforts to support states with long-term strategies to transform how they leverage the summer months to […]
There is an unprecedented sense of urgency, calls to action, and investment of resources from multiple levels of government to increase access to, and expand the role of, summer learning programs. This is very good news for students and families in California, a state that has historically underinvested in summer learning, and this moment represents […]