Book reading over summer months proven to boost educational gains in kids (opens in new tab)

Geoffrey Borman calls it the “summer slide.”Borman, the Alice Wiley Snell Endowed Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation, said the slide refers to the three-month period when children aren’t in school and don’t always have access to reading materials.For more than a century, Borman said, there has been anecdotal evidence that children experience a “deterioration of learning skills” over the summer.