Show 32: Excerpt - Summer Reading Loss
Submitted by KTD on May 12, 2011 - 4:20pm 
It turns out too much lazing around during the warm summer months can add up to some big losses in learning - as much as 2 months of literacy skills gained during the school year.
KTD! contributor Jessica Cochran has a look at some of the numbers behind the “summer slide.”
Learn more by visiting SummerLearning.org, and by reading Daniel Hernandez's report: Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation published in April, 2011.
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