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Efforts to reduce summer slide abound, with schools and organizations dedicated to reinforcing schooled content all summer long so that nothing will be lost in September. These well-meaning initiatives overlook a basic point: maybe the children never really learned at all. Maybe they simply repeated information taught for the test and quickly forgot it because it wasn’t meaningful or useful to them. They may have shown their test-taking prowess but not necessarily their learning ability.

Quote ID: 03417

Author

Kerry McDonald

Source

Unschooled

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