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ERIC Number: EJ232162
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Oct
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How Important Is Summer School?
Hoepfner, Ralph
Educational Leadership, v38 n1 p80-82 Oct 1980
Data indicate that absolute summer achievement decline is not common. Relative decline, where low achievers do not keep pace over the summer with their peers, is common. Finally, attendance at summer school appears to have no strong ameliorative effect on achievement, either short-term or longer-term. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Research Problems, Summer Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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