At Issue with Ben Merens
from Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM
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| Summer vacation is the most harmful cause of the achievement gap in America’s schools. After four, join Ben Merens and his guests for a discussion about the good and bad of summer vacation on our children.
GUESTS: Karl Alexander is the John Dewey Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of the 2007 study entitled “Lasting Consequences of the Summer Learning Gap.”
Marla Berg is an elementary principal, music coordinator, and co-coordinator of Elementary Summer School in the Wausau School District in Wausau, Wisconsin. |
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