July 31, 2018
The research is clear. Over the course of summer break, children lose skills and knowledge they worked hard to develop during the school year, a phenomenon known as "summer learning loss." According to Talia Milgrom-Elcott, founder and executive director of 100kin10, the Brookings Institution found that on average, students’ achievement scores decline over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning. And this loss is even more acute for math-based knowledge than for reading skills. This means that knowledge and skills acquired in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) are even more susceptible to summer-brain-sieve effect. Read Talia's article published in Forbes offering fun academic STEM activities that families can do at home with their children to address the "summer learning loss," including activities she highlighted from the Smithsonian Science Education Center.
Read more at https://www.forbes.com/sites/taliamilgromelcott/2018/07/31/f...