Summer is here. Maycember and all of its craziness are over. It’s time to kick back and forget about school for a few months, right? Maybe. Enter concerns about the “summer slide,” a term meant to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As students enjoy their summer vacation, some caregivers are concerned about the “Summer Slide” -- when children’s learning falls backward during the months they are not in school.

If you have school-age kids, you may have heard of the “summer slide,” a phenomenon in which students lose some of the learning they achieved in the previous school year over the summer break. The ...