“If we are to achieve educational equity, summer must become the learning season for all children.”*

Each summer more than 1,800 elementary and middle-school students from low-income households around the country participate in a unique and effective public/private partnership - the Horizons Student Enrichment Program. For six weeks they take a bus or walk to the campus of a prominent independent school, to read, write and develop math skills through innovative and hands-on teaching. Horizons students have the opportunity to paint, sing, experiment with computers and experience a classroom environment where they enjoy individual attention from professional, caring teachers and staff at a ratio of 5 to 1.

All Horizons students learn to swim, play sports, and work together as teams. Every week they are taken on culturally relevant field trips that reinforce the classroom experience. Horizons recruits students from a broad range of academic abilities: approximately two thirds are performing below grade level during the school year and benefit from the low student-teacher ratio and the leadership of their higher-achieving Horizons peers.
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