Bell After School and Summer Education Program Battles Summer Learning Loss
Building Educated Leaders for Life, or BELL, operates in
11 cities. The average American student loses one month of math and reading
skills per summer, according to a 2011 study by the RAND Corporation and for
low-income the study finds skills are set back two months.
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Participating students can get up to 8 hours assistance,
5 days a week for up to six weeks. Students also participate in music, art and
science activities and receive breakfast and lunch.
The program was born in the 1990’s out of a discovery by
black and Latino Harvard law students volunteering to mentor teenagers at
public schools. They learned their students could read at only a second-grade
level. As a result several volunteers led by Earl Martin Phalen and Andrew L.
Carter, created BELL in 1992. The
program has a waiting list of 3,000 students.
They are opening a new location in Dayton, Ohio and
expanding as quickly as they can. They also plan a pre-kindergarten program.
According to Tiffany Cooper Gueye, leader of BELL, in Boston, “They come back
as graduates of high school and as college students and serve as tutors for the
next generation of BELL scholars.”
For program evaluation reports, to volunteer, donate or
sponsor a scholarship visit http://www.experiencebell.org
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