Stop the Summer Slip

About this episode

This episode discusses the phenomenon of Summer Slip and how parents can help mitigate it with just 15 minutes of daily reading and math.

Students risk losing up to 40% of their learning over summer break (Atteberry and McEachin). In 2020 two researched looked at 200 million test scores from 18 million students across all 50 states over an 8 year period (2008-2016). The take away: The Summer Slip is real, and it can be neutralized with just 15 minutes of reading and math each day. Parents, we don't have to run a boot camp, but we have the opportunity to keep learning engagement high. Let's make school as fun and accessible as possible for our children. Let's do it 15 minutes a day this summer and stop the Summer Slip. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/49wWoiF

People in this episode

Host: Nathan Sutherland

Topics covered

• summer learning
• education
• parenting
• student engagement
• reading
• math

Keywords

• Summer Slip
• learning loss
• education
• reading
• math
• parenting
• student engagement

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Organizations: Purposely

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