Drawing from recent research, Megan Kuhfeld and Karyn Lewis find that test scores flatten or drop on average during the summer, but these drops are not concentrated among low-income students.| Brookings
New research findings challenge common assumptions about summer learning loss. In 1996, a team of scholars at the University of Missouri conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of earlier research on the extent to which students learn and/or forget academic content and skills during the summer months (Cooper et al., 1996). They found that the test scores of […]| Kappan Online
How I lost faith in one of education research’s classic results| Education Next
