Scaling Child Centered Advocacy Campaigns
Christina So and Lauren Hain
Published: July 16, 2015
Christina So and Lauren Hain look at the progress that summer learning has made in becoming a national issue. New initiatives from well-known organizations like the NFL and the emergence of new programs nationwide suggest that summer learning programs are gaining traction and having an impact.
Article Excerpt
It would have been hard to imagine five years ago when the Summer Matters Campaign launched that the Super Bowl 50 Host committee would choose National Summer Learning Day to launch the “Re(a)d Zone” – an effort to promote literacy this summer and through 2016…
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