The Urban Institute….

has a short report up reviewing the Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) Accelerated Learning Summer Program.

The program is a Monday-Friday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM accelerated learning program. On Monday’s to Thursday’s they did academic instruction in the morning and enriching activities in the afternoon. On Friday’s they did had some field trips or listened to some guest speakers.

The program has one teacher and one TA for 15 students.

They would do some reading, writing, and math each week. They also would wind up do PE, dance, and art as well.