Mike Miles, superintendent for the Dallas Independent School District, weighs in on the perks of investing in summer math programs in an article posted by Education Week blog. A recent study by The RAND Corporation study, known as the National Summer Learning Project, provides data from the first summer of a six-year, randomized controlled trial of programs in Boston; Dallas; Duval County, Florida; Pittsburgh and Rochester, New York.
The study was funded by The Wallace Foundation. Read the full report in the blog post here.