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Newton Summer Adventure is a children's summer school program directed by the for-profit Newton Learning, a division of Edison Schools. Since the program's start in Kansas City, Missouri, in the year 2000 with an enrollment of about 3000 students, Summer Adventure has greatly expanded in Missouri, and the state's student enrollment in the program reached 50,000 in the summer of 2005. Summer Adventure was offered in eleven other states in that same year.() ==Curriculum== Summer Adventure offers programs at four different age levels: *Kinderventure! Kids, kindergarten *Adventure Scouts Kids, grades 1-3 *Explorers Kids, grades 4-5 *Voyagers Kids, grades 6-8 Students grades 9-12 may take high school courses during the summer, either to make up courses they have previously failed or to obtain advancement credits. For K-8 participants, each session of Summer Adventure lasts two weeks, and the school day is six hours long. Participants take "Core Program" classes in the morning and two "Adventure Electives" classes in the afternoon.() The program aims to integrate fun and learning to attract students. Sample courses include robotics, theater, aeronautics, movie making, and physical science. According to the Newton Summer Adventure Website, "The hands-on activities promote conceptual learning and problem-solving skills, attributes which are shown to lead to increased academic performance in school. In district-sponsored programs where the Adventure includes a pre-and-post assessment, achievement gains of near 50% have been recorded."() The Columbia school district independently confirmed that Summer Adventure resulted in improved reading test scores for participants.() Summer Adventure is district-funded and free for all students. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newton Summer Adventure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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