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.
Passport to
Success reduces summer learning loss by encouraging students and families to participate in summer learning activities at local museums, science centers, libraries and cultural institutions.
«Summer School
helps reduce summer learning loss and also helps increase social and emotional development,» said Todd Klarich, Director of Community Education for PCSD.
For example, one city in the cohort doubled the number of summer learning slots available to children in 2017, and did so using the following data - based strategies: analyzing student data to identify the need for summer programming, requiring providers to agree to track certain data about participants, and implementing pre - and post-tests to determine how effective these programs were
in reducing summer learning loss.
«We are excited about the potential contribution the Project READS program will make to our knowledge about how to
reduce summer learning loss, which we know all children experience but which we also know affects low - income children more dramatically,» said Christina DeVita, president of The Wallace Foundation.
While some schools have shortened summer vacation to
reduce summer learning loss, not everyone agrees that more school is the best way for kids to spend their summer.
These infographics illustrate some of these benefits, including providing greater equity in afterschool enrichment activities,
reducing summer learning loss, and tax savings and other public benefits from these investments.
New Jersey's programs operate at least 3 hours per day, 5 days per week, during the school year and at least 4 hours per day, 4 days per week, for 4 weeks in the summer to engage youth in additional learning opportunities and
reduce summer learning loss.