by Tami Barlow | Sep 12, 2018 | Education, Enrichment, Summer Enrichment
Once again, Charleston Promise Neighborhood’s empirically-validated summer program has succeeded in helping children improve their academic outcomes. Charleston Promise Neighborhood’s summer literacy program for children entering kindergarten through fifth grade...
by Tami Barlow | Jul 11, 2018 | Summer Enrichment
Scholars are learning hands-on skills in summer school this year. Research tells us summer programs that make learning fun and concentrate on math and reading literacy help students reverse the summer slide of lost academic progress and actually advance academically...
by Tami Barlow | Jun 27, 2018 | Summer Enrichment
Charleston Promise Neighborhood designs and manages summer instruction through its Expanded Learning Time program that helps students advance academically and avoid the Summer Slide, the process by which students, particularly those from low-income homes, lose ground...
by Tami Barlow | Sep 1, 2017 | Education, Summer Enrichment
The “summer slide” has long been documented as a major threat to the academic achievement of children in high-poverty schools. They lose much of the gains they make during the school year and fall further behind their peers from higher-income homes. To combat the...
by Tami Barlow | Jun 14, 2017 | Announcements, Summer Enrichment
Charleston Promise Neighborhood’s summer learning program returned on June 12. Research shows that most of the achievement gap in reading between low-income and high-income children occurs during the summer months, when school is out. Last year, Charleston Promise...