How To Stay Off The Summer Slide
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It seems inevitable. School ends, summer begins, and kids start their annual ride down the long and slippery summer slide. Interest in summer slide or summer setback is not new. This phenomenon — whereby kids forget over the summer months some of what they learned during the school year — has been researched for decades, but there is some new thinking around how to actually combat it.
Originally published: June 26, 2019
Author: Sian Beilock
Position: President
Institution: Barnard College
Published by: Forbes