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Can you please show me that an extra week, or even two, of summer vacation causes a substantially greater loss?

So far, no one has.[/quote]

Seems like that would have been a great thing to study BEFORE issuing the Ocean City edict.[/quote]

Why? Why is there any reason to think 11 weeks would cause harm when 10 weeks is acceptable?[/quote]

+1.  There are 4-6 primary studies that are typically linked to in the footnotes of articles talking about summer slide.  All of them summarize the issue being 10 weeks of learning loss that require approximately 1-2 months to recover.  None of them show any research into showing that 11 weeks or worse than 10 weeks or would require more teaching time to relearn lost material.  The summer slide is a phenomenon that needs to be addressed, but as yet, there is no evidence that one extra week of summer would cause any signficant change in the summer slide or its solution.

It may be telling to see the standardized test scores from MD schools this fall and compare to the same schools form last year and see whether there is any test-based evidence that there is a significant different between the 2016 10-week summer gap vs the 2017 11-week summer gap.[/quote]

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