When the school year ends, teachers are happy to have a break from the drudgery of the school year, but they also want students to avoid the summer slide. The summer slide occurs when children lose ...

Researchers at UConn and the University of Minnesota have discovered that there may be more to the "summer slide" phenomenon ...

檩子：暑假马上来了，今天我们来说一个有趣的现象，叫 the Summer Slide，也有叫 Summer Learning Loss，中文翻译成暑期滑坡，或暑期学习退步。 是这样的，前几天，檩子在国外教育网站上看到一份暑期管理册，分享者Melissa是一位妈妈，也是一位小学老师，她说这做这 ...

First, the bad news; there is really no way to avoid it completely. Think about it. If you practice a skill for ten months of the year, and then take two months off, respectively, there will be some ...

It seems inevitable. School ends, summer begins, and kids start their annual ride down the long and slippery summer slide. Interest in summer slide or summer setback is not new. This phenomenon — ...

Every summer, parents in America read the same warnings: apply sunscreen, drink plenty of fluids- these are the familiar ones. The newest warning is quite interesting. You may have heard of it? "The ...

Last Tuesday, at an event in New Hampshire, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stated, "There is no reason that K-12 education should be an eight-month enterprise in this country. … We need to adjust the ...

For most kids, summertime means a few forgotten math equations or the loss of select grammar rules. For others, particularly those in poverty, it can mean years of compounding disadvantages that ...