Summer vacation is a great time to have fun and learn new things... but that's not always what happens. See what Horizons National Board Chair Jane Williams has to say about summer learning and opportunity in The Atlanta Journal Constitution. Our experience at Horizons shows the incredible potential of quality summer learning. That's why we support the right of all students to high-quality summer experiences and the need to support their parents in securing them.
What does the enrichment gap, between lower-income students and their more affluent peers, do when summer comes? Often, it grows wider. An interesting new article by Michael J. Petrilli, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, looks at the implications of this gap -- and offers suggestions to change the narrative.
As the school year comes to a close at public schools across the country, summer vacation stretches out ahead: two months full of promise. But not all of our kids have the ways and means to realize that promise, as this new article from the New York Times details. So rarely does an article express so clearly the need for a program like Horizons – and for the difference summer learning can make, for students, for families, and for communities.
The conversation about “grit” has really taken off lately. There’s a new book out by best-selling author and journalist Paul Tough, Helping Children Succeed, and it’s been getting a lot of play in the press. The grit concept itself isn’t new, but the discussion is becoming more nuanced. We’re interested in this discussion because it almost always weaves in and out of what we at Horizons do.
Through Horizons, healthy attitudes and habits forged before and during the middle school years can spell the difference between students who succeed in high school and those who stumble or drop out.
What does the enrichment gap, between lower-income students and their more affluent peers, do when summer comes? Often, it grows wider. An interesting new article by Michael J. Petrilli, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, looks at the implications of this gap -- and offers suggestions to change the narrative.