In just a few short weeks, summer vacation will come to a close, and when it does teachers will start the school year off with a familiar routine: review.
It may sound like no big deal, but over the summer students forget so much of their schooling over vacation that it’s come to be called “summer learning loss.” In the first of a three part series about the summer slide, NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown tells us why summer activities have a lot to do with how students fare during the rest of the year.