School’s out. Summer will soon be here. And with it will come the perennial concern that elementary schoolchildren will forget what they learned during the academic year. Parents and teachers have had ...

Summer is a time for play and rest, family time and adventures. But there’s compelling research to show that kids forget a lot of what they learned during the school year if they don’t have ...

On October 1st, the announcement rings out: “It’s time to master those multiplication facts, everyone!” The goal? Memorize them all by Thanksgiving and never forget. But reality teaches us otherwise.

While the summer can and certainly should be a time of rest and relaxation after a rigorous school year, it can also be a ...

If you have school-age kids, you may have heard of the “summer slide,” a phenomenon in which students lose some of the learning they achieved in the previous school year over the summer break. The ...

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On a recent morning, nearly 100 children clapped, sang, and danced in a large circle filling the cafeteria at Nystrom Elementary School in Richmond as part of a joyous Harambee celebration, the ...

It's a sweltering summer day in early July, and 13-year-old Ra'laya Myers is thrilled to be at school in North Philadelphia. "Everybody is like, literally, family here," she says. "It's a safe space." ...