For Immediate Release: Contact: Laura Johnson: 410-856-1370 x 208, ljohnson@summerlearning.org Talon Sachs: 410-856-1370 x 210, tsachs@summerlearning.org “America’s Educator,” Dr. Steve Perry and NBA Legend Dikembe Mutombo to Headline National Conference on Summer Learning – A Solution to Helping Every Student Succeed BALTIMORE (September 30, 2019) — When communities harness the power of summer learning, all […]
On September 19, 2019, the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) and partners held a Capitol Hill briefing on the topic Summer Starts in September! How targeted federal investments help partners plan successful summer activities for youth. Speakers from Baltimore City Public Schools, the Alexandria, Virginia Library, and Teachers in the Parks program in Reading, Pennsylvania […]
By Karl Alexander | published by EducationNext, 08/26/2019 In his summer 2019 essay “Is Summer Learning Loss Real?,” Paul von Hippel tells us that his belief in summer slide – the pattern that has low-income and disadvantaged minority youth losing ground academically to their more advantaged peers over the long summer break — “has been shaken.” […]
By LIBSOLOMON| TOWSON TIMES | JUN 18, 2019 When Gia Bastien, of Towson, was a child growing up in a rural area of Maine, her parents, trying to protect their African American daughter in an overwhelmingly white state, pulled her out of school in the fourth grade. Bastien, who now lives in Loch Raven Village, said she […]