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 ...

Summer is here. Maycember and all of its craziness are over. It’s time to kick back and forget about school for a few months, right? Maybe. Enter concerns about the “summer slide,” a term meant to ...

SUMMER BREAK IS A TIME FOR KIDS TO RELAX, HAVE FUN, BUT IT CAN ALSO LEAD TO LEARNING LOSS. KNOWN AS THE SUMMER SLIDE, A FREE CAMP IN THE TRIAD IS TRYING TO PREVENT THAT LEARNING LOSS. WE HAVE STAR ...

Every summer we hear from educators about the “summer slide” in academic learning (e.g. here and here). The claim is that children lose much of what they gained from school during the summer break, so ...