Stop Summer Learning Loss

Connect with Kids reports that a study from the University of Missouri, shows that when on vacation kids forget some of what they've learned. By the end of summer, they lose, “over two and one-half months of grade-level equivalency in mathematics,” says Fran Chamberlain, director of an after-school program called KidsLit.
“Teachers are spending easily up to six weeks trying to review what had happened in previous years,” says David Payne, a former principal.
Payne, now the CEO of an after-school program called the Extreme Learning Center, says reading skills also lag. He suggests that parents go to school and talk to their children's teacher before the end of classes. Parents involved in their children's summer learning give their offspring a great advantage the next school year. The key to summer learning is to make it fun!