THE SUMMER READING IMPERATIVE
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on students’ reading achievement. Data from the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate that only 33% of fourth-graders and 31% of eighth-graders performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level (National Center for Education Statistics, 2022). The average student reading test scores in Grades 4 and 8 were comparable to student performance in 1992. Increasingly, district administrators are turning to summer learning initiatives to accelerate academic recovery efforts. Indeed, a meta-analysis of 41 studies of Grades K–8 classroom and home-based summer reading programs concluded that summer learning initiatives can significantly improve student reading test achievement (Kim & Quinn, 2013: Kuhfeld, 2023).
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