Summer Reading

Voluntary Reading 1 The Effects of a Voluntary Summer Reading Intervention on Reading Activities and Reading Achievement

Does Reading During the Summer Build Reading Skills? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in 463 Classrooms

There are large gaps in reading skills by family income among school-aged children in the United States. Correlational evidence suggests that reading skills are strongly related to the amount of reading students do outside of school. Experimental evidence testing whether this relationship is causal is lacking. The researchers report the results from a randomized evaluation of a summer reading p...

Delayed Effects of a Low-Cost and Large-Scale Summer Reading Intervention on Elementary School Children’s Reading Comprehension

To improve the reading comprehension outcomes of children in high poverty schools, policymakers need to identify reading interventions that show promise of effectiveness at scale. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low-cost and large-scale summer reading intervention that provided comprehension lessons at the end of the school year and stimulated home-based summer reading routines with...

Optimal Multilevel Matching Using Network Flows: an Application to a Summer Reading

Many observational studies of causal effects occur in settings with clustered treatment assignment. In studies of this type, treatment is applied to entire clusters of units. For example, an educational intervention might be administered to all the students in a school. We develop a matching algorithm for multilevel data based on a network flow algorithm. Earlier work on multilevel matching rel...

Summer Buzz

t is late Sunday afternoon in August. A child stands alone in the garden listening to the metallic sounds of insects, " reads Charles Burchfield's own description of The Insect Chorus. " They are all his world, so, to his mind, all things become saturated with their presence–crickets lurk in the depths of the grass, the shadows of the trees conceal fantastic creatures, and the boy looks with fe...