Make the Most of Summer: How to Engage Your Kids in Their Summer Work & Stop Summer Learning Loss By now, you’ve probably heard of “summer slide” or “brain drain," and you don’t want your children to experience summer learning loss. You know your kids need to keep up the skills they’ve learned in school so they don’t lose that knowledge and start the next school year lagging behind. Or, mayb … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know Now About Summer Brain Drain
Summer brain drain is the loss of academic skills over a period of time that a student is away from school, most usually summer vacation. Brain drain is also referred to as summer slide, learning loss or regression. The research shows that the average student loses 2 1/2 months of math computational skills previously learned, regardless of family income and educational levels. It can take upwa … [Read more...]