Summer learning loss, also known as the “summer slide,” represents a significant challenge in education where students experience academic regression during extended breaks from formal instruction.

As classrooms close until next fall, talk of the dreaded summer slide increases, particularly as students are still struggling to gain ground lost during the pandemic. Students’ academic achievement ...

The good news: Most superintendents plan to sustain or expand their districts’ spending on summer school programs in 2025, an effort that could help many students build on academic skills learned ...

Ah, summer. Idyllic afternoons at the beach, evening outings to baseball games and road trips through the countryside to visit far-flung family and friends. Oh, wait. That’s not what your family’s ...

Guarionex Sanchez, left, and two other middle-schoolers saute chicken for an alfredo recipe they're making in a summer learning program in Lynn, Massachusetts. Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger ...

For decades, education researchers have warned about “summer slide,” where students forget some of what they learned over the previous school year during summer vacation. A systematic review of 39 ...

For the fourth summer in a row, Ypsilanti Community Schools in southeast Michigan’s Washtenaw County is operating Grizzly Learning Camp, a free seven-week summer learning program for students in ...

Summer has arrived. For kids, this might mean freedom from schoolwork. But for parents, it can also mean the summer care scramble—the stressful (and expensive) need for working parents to piece ...

Oregon schools will soon have something they’ve never had before: more than a year to plan for summer school with the promise of consistent funding from the Legislature. But it comes with a condition: ...

As summer approaches, many parents worry about “summer slide,” a term used to describe the learning loss that can occur when children are out of school for an extended period. Research from ...

It's a sweltering summer day in early July, and 13-year-old Ra'laya Myers is thrilled to be at school in North Philadelphia. "Everybody is like, literally, family here," she says. "It's a safe space." ...