If there is a school-aged child in your life, you’ve likely heard about the “summer slide” – when students lose ground academically while out of the classroom over summer break.
As a mom of an 8-year-old girl, I see it firsthand. All she wants to do over the summer is play, swim, and watch Looney Tunes (she loves a good classic). But as co-chair of the Manatee Childcare Alliance alongside my colleague Darrell King, CEO of the Early Learning Coalition, I can’t help but let statistics about the summer slide run through my mind.
According to the National Association of Counties, students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds lose two to three months of reading proficiency each summer…