Research
The following are links to research related to the Olympia School District's exploration of balanced calendar. This list will be updated with other resources as they become available:
New October 26, 2022
October 5, 2022
Other Resources
- Making the most of summer school -- a meta-analytic and narrative review (Cooper, Charlton, Valentine & Muhlenbrock, 2000)
- Summer Learning Loss: The Problem and Some Solutions(Cooper, Harris, 2003)
- Visible Learning (Hattie, 2009)
- Slowing the Summer Slide (Smith 2012)
- Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap (Alexander, Entwisle and Olson, 2001, 2006)
- Using a Balanced School Year to Improve Student Achievement. A White Paper of the Stark Education Partnership
- A Reset for Assessment: Toward a Less Burdensome Accountability System (Buckley, Jack, 2021)
- A Blueprint for Scaling Tutoring Across Public Schools, EdWorkingPaper No. 20-335 (Kraft, Matthew A.; Falken, Grace T.)
- Invest in Teachers First: A Call to Action for Teacher-Focused Investments of Federal Relief Funds (Center on Great Teachers and Leaders)
- Agrarian roots? Think again. Debunking the myth of summer vacation's origins (PBS; Saskia de Melker and Sam Weber)