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• Merkley, Wyden Introduce Bill to Close Summer Learning Gap (July 2018)

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 31, 2018 Contact: Martina McLennan/Ray Zaccaro (Merkley) – 202-224-3753 Emily Zahnle-Hostetler (Wyden) – 202-224-3789 Merkley, Wyden Introduce Bill to Close Summer Learning Gap WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today introduced the Summer Learning and Meals Act of 2018, new legislation to help close the summer […]

• Summer Learning Gaps Worsen in Higher Grades, Just Not the Way You Think (July 2018)

  Summer Learning Gaps Worsen in Higher Grades, Just Not the Way You Think By Sarah D. Sparks By the end of middle school, students may lose a third to half of what they learn during the year to the so-called “summer slide.” That’s because what students forget over the summer becomes more damaging over time […]

• Summer offers opportunity to bridge gap in academic and social emotional learning

  Guest Opinion Essay on Youth Today By Aaron P. Dworkin, National Summer Learning Association (NSLA), and Marlyn Torres, New York Life Foundation As America’s education system and economy recover from COVID-19, communities everywhere are turning to summer learning for hope and inspiration in preparing students for the school year ahead. Thanks to a $30 billion […]

• High expectations for summer programs as learning gaps predicted to grow

  Advocates and researchers are emphasizing the role of remediation and enrichment in mitigating learning loss as “three months away from school has stretched to six.” By Linda Jacobson With experts predicting and school leaders expecting significant student learning loss because of school closures, advocates, researchers and others stepped up efforts this week to emphasize the […]