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Keeping Your Kids' Education From Sliding This Summer

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Kim Henry

Published July 25, 2018 at 3:01 PM EDT

According to a 1996 sudy, students lose an average of two months worth of knowledge over summer break every year.

Anyone who's been through school remembers the glory of summer vacation -- and the blues of the following fall. Well that slow return to school is actually a documented phenomenon with a name: the "summer slide."

Executive Director of Vermont After School, Holly Morehouse, sits down with Vermont Edition to talk about summer learning loss and its impact on young students in Vermont. We'll also be joined by Leisa Pollander from Sarah Holbrook Community Center to understand how the summer slide impacts New American communites.

Broadcast live on Thursday, July 26, 2018 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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Kim Henry

Kim Henry was the Vermont Edition intern summer 2018.

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