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Teaching Parents to Help Stop the 'Summer Slide'
| Fear-inspiring high-end business firm ratface | 09/26/14 |
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Date: September 26th, 2014 3:30 AM Author: Fear-inspiring high-end business firm ratface More learning is particularly important over the summer. A landmark study (pdf) published in 2007 found that middle-class and poorer students progress through the school year at the same rate. Then how to explain the three-year achievement gap between poor and non-poor students at the beginning of ninth grade? One-third of the gap was a result of the difference that existed when they started school. Two-thirds came from the summer. Middle-class children don’t regress as readers during the summer — because they go to the library, do educational activities, take classes. Poor children, however, lose between one and two months in reading achievement. (Springboard uses the figure of three months, which others dispute.) Year after year, it adds up. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/teaching-parents-to-help-stop-the-summer-slide/?partner=rss&emc=rss |