Youth Today
The summer learning movement came into being after research in the 1990s showed that the academic gap between affluent and low-income students was largely created during the summer.
The nonprofit National Summer Learning Association was founded to address this gap.
Thursday — National Summer Learning Day — the organization publicizes events across the country that show what summer programs can do.
More than 800 events range from a demonstration by Geeking Out Kids of Color in Seattle to a gathering of local and state officials at the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County in Rochester, N.Y.