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Podcast: Brave New Teaching: A Podcast for High School and Middle School Teachers
Episode: SUMMER READING RESCUE - PART 1 [Ep 252]
Description: What the research tells us is clear: reading skills are lost over the summer.  And that loss is not equitably distributed among our student population. It’s estimated that low income students can lose up to two months of reading achievement over the summer - much more than more affluent students.So we are faced with a dilemma: we know that the summer slide is real, but we also know that forcing students to read over the summer hasn’t necessarily worked for many of us.In today’s episode, Amanda makes the case for...