Indian Student Achievement Resources & Guidance

Letter to Vendors and Resource Providers

A Guide for Evaluating Indian Education Services, Products, and Materials

Funding Spectrum Guide: Indian Student Achievement

Important Resources on Providing Enriching and Effective Summer School Programs For Low-Income and Other Disadvantaged Youth

1)  From the Harvard Family Research Project: "Summer Success: Challenges and Strategies in Creating Quality Academically Focused Summer Programs" (Number 9, October 2006), synthesizes formative findings from 34 evaluations of academically focused summer programs to examine ways of creating quality programming for youth. Learn about 7 common challenges programs face in achieving quality, and discover promising and innovative strategies for overcoming these challenges. You can access the brief online at: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/resources/issuebrief9.html

2)  "Making the Most of Summer:  A Handbook of Effective Summer Programming and Thematic Learning" is a resource for providers who want to improve the quality of their summer programs by meeting the academic and youth development needs of their participants.  Available at:  http://www.summerlearning.org/productsservices/index.html