The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss - Softcover

“If we intend to renew our reform agenda, as we must, summer learning should be a top priority. This volume provides a clear rationale for investment in summer learning as well as a balanced analysis of the ways and means of assuring effective implementation.”
—From the foreword by
Paul Reville
, Harvard Graduate School of Education, former Massachusetts secretary of education

“A comprehensive look at what’s known about summer’s impact on learning and achievement, this work is an important contribution to the field and a wake-up call to policymakers and educators alike. The authors’ analysis reinforces the need for many more high-quality, well-evaluated summer programs and reminds us all that to ignore summer is to accept the staggering opportunity and achievement gaps we now have.”
—
Jane Stoddard Williams
, chair, Horizons National

"
The Summer Slide
provides the reader with everything they didn't know about summer learning loss and also provides information on everything we do know about eliminating summer learning loss. Do your school a favor and read this book, and then act upon what you have learned."
—
Richard Allington
, University of Tennessee

Karl L. Alexander is director of the Thurgood Marshall Alliance in Baltimore and John Dewey professor emeritus of sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is coauthor of The Long Shadow which received the 2016 Grawemeyer Prize in Education. Sarah Pitcock is CEO of the National Summer Learning Association. Matthew Boulay is founder of the National Summer Learning Association.