EU Summer School

Apparently, the result of “no child left behind” or NCLB law seems to indicate that our schools are not where we want them to be. Many educators to explain that so many children are ESL or English as a second language course, they involve problems with reading and writing, and if they have problems with learning, they will also have trouble with math is difficult enough without trying the language barrier during instruction to piercing.

One proposed solution is to go to school to increase during the summer. In this way the children will not forget everything they learned in the summer months, and returned to school just to check back for a month or two before the new stuff. Yes, it’s another way to improve efficiency in schools, and maybe we do not have summer vacation for kids, if it is really left over from the days when children worked on a farm 10 hours per day in winter months heat, and go to school when the plants are not in season.

A report of this interesting study recently came from the RAND Corporation and sponsored in part by the Wallace Foundation titled, “Making Summer Count – Summer Can Improve Children’s Learning” that almost assessed all the information about the “summer” loss of learning, Information and forgotten, and loss of continuity in education. The amount of information to decipher the real benefits of these programs to determine summer school in determining the learning-mile markers.

The study also “challenges in creating and maintaining programs such as school and district. In the summer program providers can benefit from existing research and lessons learned in other programs in developing strategies for program effectiveness and quality, student participation, and strategic partnerships and to maximize funding, “RAND Corp. and the Wallace Foundation press release.

Research seems to speak for themselves, and I can tell you that the kids really forget things in the summer, especially how to do algebra, and all the rules that exist in mathematics. Furthermore, they lose this ability when they really need to learn them and use them every day, so they remember their long-term memory, which will help them for a lifetime.

Another idea is that students learn at home and YouTube videos from the “Institute of Kahn” well – because if they can watch all the videos they’re really going back to school with more knowledge than they have learned in the previous school year. Our children are not stupid, it does not matter, and we must find a way to ensure continuity of learning if our children will excel in mathematics. Please consider this and think about it.