Summer Learning - Help Prevent the Summer Slide

Preventing the "summer slide," where students lose skills and knowledge during the vacation break - and which, research shows, can severely affect the academic progress of disadvantaged students - is very important.

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New Research - Students Who Get Stuck Look for Computer Malfunctions

When students working with educational software get stymied, they often try to find fault with the computer or the software, rather than look to their own mistakes. This is often owing to problems with feedback in the computer programs.

Recommended Resource - Literature Map

Finding books that kids will like can be a difficult task. Literature Map is a tool that might make that process easier. Literature Map provides a web of authors that readers might like based on authors that they already enjoy reading.

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