Is summer slide a given? Or are there ways to prevent students from losing important progress in academic skills – such as reading – during the summer months when there are fewer resources and less ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — As summer begins, children are relishing the time off from school—enjoying extra screen time, plenty of play, and a general sense of freedom. However, this break can lead to what ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The official start to summer is right around the corner, which means kids will also be out of the classroom pretty soon. While summer is a chance for children to step away from the ...

"It's an opportunity for kids to kind of find their own path to grow." GRANDVILLE, Mich. — There's a pretty easy way to avoid the Summer Slide; get kids reading. Grandville's Central Elementary School ...

It seems inevitable. School ends, summer begins, and kids start their annual ride down the long and slippery summer slide. Interest in summer slide or summer setback is not new. This phenomenon — ...

Last September, a friend from graduate school forwarded me a Brookings Institute article written by David M. Quinn and Morgan Polikoff. The article begins with a series of disappointing—but ...

WELL, SIT RIGHT HERE. WHO SAYS LEARNING CAN’T BE FUN? THREE PLUS FIVE, EIGHT, EIGHT ARE VERY GOOD. WHEN YOU CAN GET KIDS TO SMILE ABOUT MATH, THAT’S A WIN. AND HELPING KIDS AVOID THE SUMMER SLIDE IS ...

Research shows that two months of reading skills and two and half months of math skills are lost over summer. By the time a student reaches middle school, they have lost the equivalent of 2 years of ...

When it comes to the summer holidays, most parents have mixed feelings: Relieved to have a break from the routine of early school drop-offs, homework and extra murals, as well as dreading having to ...

Is the "summer slide" real? One education researcher recently questioned that assumption. The idea that students lose ground in their learning when they leave school for the summer break, suggested ...

What if the children who allegedly experience "summer slide" never really learned at all? asks Kerry McDonald. (Brandon Morgan/Unsplash) One of the prevailing assumptions about learning is the idea of ...

The average student loses one to three months of learning over summer, and a National Center for Education Statistics report suggests one reason for the “summer slide”: Students from lower-income ...