District Leveraging ESSA to Fight “Summer Slide”
June 6, 2018
Kate Stringer reports in The 74 that this summer, North Carolina’s Guilford County School District “is making a large investment to combat summer slide—the loss of academic gains that can occur over idle summer months.” More than “20,000 students in the 49 Title I elementary schools will select six books to keep before heading home for the summer,” as part of a new program entitled “Break with a Book.”