Not exact matches
Summer learning loss can have compounding effects on academic achievement — if a student is already struggling with learning to read, a summer setback can make it that much more difficult for the student to be reading to learn by fourth
Summer learning loss can have compounding effects on academic achievement — if a student is already struggling with
learning to read, a
summer setback can make it that much more difficult for the student to be reading to learn by fourth
summer setback can
make it that much more difficult for the student to be reading to
learn by fourth grade.
Over the last several decades, the deleterious effects of
summer learning loss have been repeatedly documented, from Barbara Heyns» landmark 1978 study through the ongoing work of Karl Alexander and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University to the Rand Corp.'s 2011 study Making Summer
summer learning loss have been repeatedly documented, from Barbara Heyns» landmark 1978 study through the ongoing work of Karl Alexander and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University to the Rand Corp.'s 2011 study
Making Summer Summer Count.
«
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.
According to a 20 - year study done at Johns Hopkins University, and cited in a Time magazine cover story about
summer learning loss, «low - income elementary school students lost ground in reading each
summer, compared with their higher - income peers, who
made progress.»
According to this article on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's website, students lose approximately 2.6 months of math
learning over the
summer, and teachers have to use class time to
make up for the
loss, preventing them from moving forward.