Is the summer bad for your child's brain? [TimesOnline.com]
- Published: 12 August 2009
It would seem so, according to new research, and it's really not that surprising. Wouldn't any of us suffer if we had six to eight weeks off work?
The research, from Johns Hopkins University, suggests that schoolchildren lose an average of two months learning over the summer holidays - if their parents fail to keep them "mentally active." They say that research spanning over 100 years shows that "students typically score lower on standardised tests at the end of summer vacation than they do on the same tests at the beginning of the summer."
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