Summer Learning Loss

The American ideal of lazy summers filled with fun has an unintended consequence: If students are not engaged in learning over the summer, they lose one to three months of skills in math and reading. Summers off are one of the most important, yet least acknowledged, causes of underachievement in our schools. This learning loss is cumulative, summer after summer. This means that students will be nearly three years behind their peers by the time they reach the end of the fifth grade...It has a tremendous impact on students’ success, including high school completion, post-secondary education and work force preparedness.

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