Preventing Kids From Slipping Into Summer Slide

Go News To Go: More Good News · Aug 10, 2022 · 15m

With vacations now underway and kids off from school – parents need to keep in mind the problem of Summer Slide - - which is learning loss over the months not attending school.

This loss is one of the most common causes of the achievement gap, or the differences in scores

between students.

The average student loses 17% to 28% of school-year gains in English language arts during the summer and in math the average loss was around 25-30%, according to the American Education Research Association.

Not only that research has found that summer slide can sometimes place students as much as three…