Every year with the last ring of the school bell in early June, signaling the start of the summer vacation for millions of students a phenomenon starts to occur called the Summer Slide or Summer learning loss. Over the period of several months between mid June and September, kids lose anywhere from few weeks up to 1-2 months of learning gain from the previous school year. And that summer loss is most accute in their math skills. This year things are quite different with school closures and shift to distance learning that started in mid March. Research on summer learning loss shows that a much greater “COVID-19” slide could occur when students now taking online classes return to school after the coronavirus closures, according to a new NWEA report.
According to the NWEA researchers, "Preliminary COVID slide estimates suggest students will return in fall 2020 with roughly 70% of the learning gains in reading relative to a typical school year. However, in mathematics, students are likely to show much smaller learning gains, returning with less than 50% of the learning gains and in some grades, nearly a full year behind what we would observe in normal conditions."
The best solution to avoid the usual summer slide and this year's COVID slide is for families to be proactive and support the academic needs of children during the summer months. Here at Mathnasium we offer an assessment on students' skills and create a custom learning plan to address those needs. Face-to-face tutoring with our instructors happens in real time over internet from the safety of your home.
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