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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Source? I feel like this was discussed here not too long ago and there was no evidence that more 'year-round' schedules showed no measurable benefits (though I'm dubious if the analysis went beyond simple test scores)?
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While many parents keep their kids engaged during the long vacation by enrolling their children in summer activities that include summer school, sports and library reading programs, far too many children end up with a summer learning loss as a result of the traditional summer break from school. The average student loses roughly 2.6 months worth of knowledge during the typical three-month summer vacation, according to an article on the National Association for Year Round Education website. As a result, teachers have to spend as many as six weeks getting students ready to learn the new grade-level materials. Of course, teachers could just skip the review, but as the student progresses through the grades, the learning loss will accumulate and the nation’s students will fall even further behind other industrialized countries when it comes to math and science knowledge.
https://resilienteducator.com/classr...ning-gap-real/
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A more skeptical article that digs into the data, but still concludes that there’s enough evidence of some learning loss that measures should be taken to combat it:
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What have we learned since von Hippel asked in 2019 whether summer learning loss is real? While the story is still pretty mixed in the early grades, we consistently observe average test score drops during the summer in 3rd through 8th grade. However, differences in the magnitude of test score drops across studies imply that we still cannot say with certainty whether summer learning loss is a trivial or serious issue.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/i...family-income/
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