Summer vacation in the US can cause up to a month of learning loss in math skills, particularly among low-income students. Studies suggest adding three weeks to the school year and daily math homework can decrease this loss by a third.
Some studies suggest that children who get a three-month summer vacation, as is the tradition in the United States, lose up to a month of progress in math skills during the summer vacation. This learning loss is particularly evident among low-income students, even though they perform in the same way as their peers throughout the school year.
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Studies show that low-income students lose more reading comprehension skills during the summer holidays than middle-income students. A Johns Hopkins University study suggested that by the ninth grade, about 75% of the achievement gap between students of different economic levels could be due to learning loss during the summer holidays.
The New York Board of Regents found that, on average, one month of revision is needed at the beginning of each school year to compensate for summer learning loss.
A University of Delaware study estimated that if US schools added three weeks to the school year and required 10 minutes of math homework every day over the summer, students’ lost math progress would decrease by a third.
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