EdSurge featured LightSail and the Johns Hopkins research study on its SummerSail program in an article on combating summer slide.
“New York City-based LightSail says its summer reading program this year is deeply informed by what it learned last summer when it ran a reading program with 280 New York City middle school students. Students involved with the program, which lasted an average of seven weeks, experienced a “significant” gain in their Lexile levels during that time and finished a bit more than 7.5 books, according to an assessment conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins.”
Read the story here.
Posted on 6.Jun.16 in News
