We've all heard of the notion of summer learning loss, but what is it exactly? It is defined as "the loss of academic skills and knowledge over the course of summer holidays. The loss in learning varies across grade level, subject matter, and family income. A common finding across numerous studies is that, on average, students score lower on standardized tests at the end of the summer than they do at the beginning of summer ...

Many districts struggle to capture and keep parent contact information up-to-date. With summer fast approaching, now’s the time to consider how you can capture this information when back to school comes around. We interviewed 25 school districts who have a higher than 1:1 student to parent email address ratio for their district in order to learn which tools and processes they use to gather and maintain this critical ...