Summer Transition Academy. Cited as a ‘best practice’ by Wheeler and Miao (2005), a summer transition academy for low achieving students may help to alleviate academic deficits. Similar to the Freshman Focus course, the summer program would provide opportunities for students’ academic remediation and support in study skills, reading, and/or mathematics (Cauley & Jovanovich, 2006; Neild, 2009; Wheeler & Miao, 2005). Cited by Neild (2009), Chicago Public Schools created such a program for students scoring “between the 35th and 49th percentiles in reading and mathematics on nationally normed standardized tests” (p. 70). They found that students enrolled in the summer enrichment had significantly higher rates of being on track for graduation (Neild,
