Summer Learning Loss News Today

With summer coming up, some parents are looking for extra educational opportunities for their children.

There are two popular theories about the origin of the school summer holiday: one, that it came about because farmers needed their children to help with the harvest; and two, that the school calendar was tailored to the long holidays of the Victorian professional classes. Many public school parents worked as lawyers or in Parliament, and had a recess between July and September. Neither idea is relevant to today’s students, but a six-week-minimum break remains – although, perhaps, n...

YMCA is offering free meals at several locations in the area for kids 18 and under.

Waterslides and playground slides are part of summers fun. But theres one slide to avoid when the weather gets warm: the "summer slide." Thats the loss over the long summer

From robotics, coding, electric skateboards to art museum field trips, Seeking Education Empowers Knowledge (S.E.E.K.) Foundation Founder Anike Sakariyawo and her staff are going above and beyond to ensure a

The Hillsborough County School District has dedicated $34 million to fight summer learning loss this year.

The Governor's Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) announced the expansion of its K-3 Home Library program to deliver 970,000 books to teachers and students in all 95 counties statewide to combat summer learning loss in Tennessee.

Grants of up to $5,000 per organization are available for summer reading programs.

District? >> no i think that would be a horrendous mistake, and i think state-wide policies would be a horrendous mistake. there are lots of families across the nation whose children have terrific summer experiences, traveling with the family, going to camps, taking that away from them would be a big mistake. but we have lots of kids, particularly from low-income and less educated families who experience something called summer learning loss, where they lose during the summer a big chunk of what...

Fairly minor kinds of pensions so that people have retirement security. but let me talk about right now. right now, we have lost summer school in lots of districts throughout the country because the funding was not there. that means that kids have summer learning loss, which they will show up in september with that, with less kind of acquisition of knowledge than they had in the -- in the spring. what we are trying to avoid with every teacher layoff, with every teacher cut, you see a cut in serv...