Sentences with phrase «learning loss gap»

This summer, we will once again be providing our middle school students with an academic summer camp that is aimed not only at reducing the summer learning loss gap, but also positioning students to be ahead of the game when they return to school in the fall.

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«This is particularly important because summer learning loss is cumulative and accounts for a significant percentage of the achievement gap.»

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

Summer learning loss is among the most pernicious — if least acknowledged — causes of achievement gaps in America's schools, notes David von Drehle in this week's Time Magazine, and lengthening the school year is the answer.

Miller has calculated the learning loss attributable to teacher absences to be equal to about 5 percent of the achievement gap between black and white students.

Summer instruction in particular may be as important as any extended time intervention, as it serves to maintain continuous learning, counters the loss of achievement gains caused by long gaps in school, and provides needed nutrition and other auxiliary supports (Borman & Dowling, 2006).

According to the Beginning School Study (1982), summer learning loss «accounts for most of the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and those whose families are better off».

By: Jessie Kember Summer slide, or the summer achievement gap, is the loss of learning over the summer break while students are out of school.

In fact, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University, summer learning loss during elementary school accounts for two - thirds of the achievement gap in reading between low - income children and their middle - income peers by ninth grade.

The discussions required to reduce teacher absence and claw back associated learning loss require sensitivity to the needs of teachers, the scarcity of resources, and the urgency of improving achievement overall and closing achievement gaps.

FITS provides students and their families with unique and engaging learning experiences to reduce and reverse summer learning loss and narrow the achievement gap between lower - income students and their middle / upper - income peers.

The program directly addresses summer learning loss and the achievement gap between low - income students and their middle / upper - income peers.

«Summer learning loss translates into achievement gaps and educational inequities,» said Jennifer Sloan McCombs, a Rand senior policy researcher and co-author of the Making Summer Count study, at a recent national conference of school administrators.

Dominic A. Cipollone, Principal at the New Venture Community School 219 in the Bronx, New York brings us the following guest blog post on summer learning loss and bridging the achievement gap: Our country is -LSB-...]

This phenomenon, called summer learning loss, impacts low - income students the most, and, as students progress to higher grade levels, the achievement gap widens.

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But did you know that by the time a student gets to the 5th grade, the summer learning loss can add up to a 2 - 3 year education gap?

This gap is cumulative, and each summer's two month gap contributes to a sizable learning loss, especially in reading, by the time a student reaches grade 9.

Research published in the article «Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap» by Karl L. Alexander, et al, charted how a student's socio - economic status (SES) plays a role is summer learniLearning Gap» by Karl L. Alexander, et al, charted how a student's socio - economic status (SES) plays a role is summer learninglearning loss:

Summer learning loss disproportionately affects low - income students and therefore likely contributes to the achievement gap between these students and their higher - income peers, according to researchers.

For more information about achievement gaps and summer learning loss, read this Read Charlotte blog post.