Triple Pundit | Nation's Illiteracy Woes Won't Be Solved By Government Alone

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As kids head back to school, teachers are once again battling the effects of the dreaded summer slide—a term used to describe the tendency for students to lose some of the achievement gains they made during the previous school year.

One study using data from over half a million students in grades 2 through 9 found that students, on average, lost between 25 and 30 percent of their school-year learning over the summer.