What iS The Summer Slide???
Each summer, students lose critical math and literacy skills, widening the achievement gap and requiring substantial remediation at the start of each school year.
To prevent this “summer slide,” EverFi has partnered with Major League Baseball to develop a continuous and engaging learning experience that prepares students of all backgrounds to enter the next school year on track.
- 2.6 months of math skills are lost over the summer on average [Oxford Learning (2015)]
- 2/3 of income-based achievement gap is attributed to summer learning loss by beginning of high school [Johns Hopkins University (2010)]
- 6 weeks are spent re-learning old material each fall [Oxford Learning (2015)]
- 75% of U.S. students currently do not participate in summer learning programs [Afterschool Alliance (2010)]