 John, This morning at schools across America, thousands of students showed up to class woefully underprepared for the work in front of them. They're suffering from learning loss caused by remote schooling during the pandemic. But there's good news, Mike writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published today: "we know how to overcome learning loss." Read Mike's WSJ opinion piece (subscription may be required) → The solution, Mike writes, is "Summer Boost," a program we launched last year at New York City public charter schools for rising first through ninth graders, and that we announced today we're expanding to seven new cities this year. In 2022, Summer Boost provided 16,383 students with in-person learning and enrichment activities at 224 schools, in all five boroughs. "The response from students and schools was resoundingly positive," Mike writes, "and the results were encouraging." Watch a short video to see the difference Summer Boost made for New York City students: 
In 2023, Summer Boost programs will be held in Baltimore, Birmingham, Indianapolis, Memphis, Nashville, San Antonio, and Washington, D.C. — and will continue in New York City. The expansion will potentially double the number of students helped last year, all of whom will now have a chance to catch up for the year ahead. It's an important step toward addressing an urgent challenge. Students coping with learning loss could ultimately miss out on a lifetime of opportunities, creating setbacks for families, schools, communities, and — given the scale of the challenge — our entire country. America won't be able to put the pandemic behind us until we put the challenge of learning loss front and center. Read and share Mike's op-ed to help spread the word about the importance of confronting learning loss for kids across the U.S.: https://www.wsj.com/articles/summer-school-can-remedy-pandemic-brain-drain-covid-closures-students-charter-public-philanthropy-bloomberg-af4b2278 And watch the Summer Boost video: https://www.bloomberg.org/videos/charter-school-students-in-eight-cities-will-benefit-from-summer-boost/
More Stories The expansion of Summer Boost is one of several recent initiatives Bloomberg Philanthropies is supporting to help students succeed. With data showing the power of "near-peer" college advising to help high-performing, low-income students attend and graduate from top tier colleges, last month we announced a refocusing of our CollegePoint advising program and an expansion of our partnership with Matriculate. Beginning with students graduating high school in 2023, CollegePoint will focus exclusively on offering free advising for first-generation college students to enroll and graduate from the nation's top colleges and universities. The expanded partnership will allow CollegePoint near-peer counselors to advise as many as 4,000 graduating seniors by 2025. Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed $86 million to CollegePoint since its inception in 2014.
To help New York City Public School students as they graduate high school and navigate the college and career planning process, Bloomberg Philanthropies provided $5.2 million to help City University of New York (CUNY) and NYC Public Schools to launch the CUNY College & Career Advising Fellows. The program has already placed 10 full-time, in-person advisers to serve graduating seniors in 10 NYC public high schools. By the 2024-2025 academic year, the program will expand its reach with 40 advisers in 30 high schools, potentially helping thousands of students as they prepare for higher education and successful careers.
Earlier this month Bloomberg Philanthropies supported Launch: Equitable and Accelerated Pathways for All, a national career pathways initiative tackling the challenge of too few learners — particularly Black and Latinx learners and learners experiencing poverty — earning credentials of value, and too many who enroll in postsecondary education not finishing and taking on hard-to-pay debt, further perpetuating economic inequity.
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