Johns Hopkins University Partners with Camelot Learning
Johns Hopkins University chooses Camelot Learning as an exemplary intervention program to decrease summer learning loss. While all children have the potential to lose knowledge in the summer, Camelot Learning is putting children ahead of the game come September.
Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) July 20, 2006
Johns Hopkins University chooses Camelot Learning as an exemplary intervention program to decrease summer learning loss. Did you know elementary and middle school children lose knowledge over summer vacation? According to Johns Hopkins Center for Summer Learning, “all young people experience learning losses when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer.”
Camelot Learning is a hands on academic enrichment program focused on Mathematics and Reading, correlated to national educational standards, and designed to engage the attention and enthusiasm of elementary and middle school children. Currently operating in Maryland, North Carolina, Washington DC, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Texas, Camelot Learning provides daily activities and games in summer school settings, ensuring children’s learning continues to accumulate over the summer months.
JHU Center for Summer Learning is committed to expanding summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged children and youth as a strategy for closing the achievement gap. “Summer learning programs like those provided by Camelot Learning send young people back to school ready to learn, support working families, and keep children safe and healthy, “said Ron Fairchild, executive director for the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University. Camelot Learning is particularly effective in reaching children during the summer because the learning takes place through hands-on activities and games as opposed to textbooks and computers.
Through its national network of providers and partners, the Center seeks to make summer learning a priority in communities across the country. Using research-based approaches and models of effective practice like Camelot Learning, the Center strives to ensure that all children have access to high-quality learning opportunities during the summer months.
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