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Attention All Summer Program Providers: Join the Citywide Effort to Prevent Summer Learning Loss

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

 
 

 
Did you know that Summer Learning Loss accounts for more than half of the achievement gap between middle and low-income students?

Did you know that Summer Learning Loss results in a significant loss of academic skills— about 2 months worth of achievement— for students not engaged in any summer enrichment activities?

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The City is Our Classroom

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Author: Milton Chen, Executive Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation
George Lucas, founder and chairman of our foundation, has said: “It’s imperative that we create new kinds of schools, freed from an educational system deeply rooted in the distant past and the kinds of schools so many of us attended decades ago.” For [...]