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6 ways to keep kids' school skills sharp over the summer

  • Written by Suzanne McLeod, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Binghamton University, State University of New York
6 ways to keep kids' school skills sharp over the summerFamily outings and journal-writing can help keep kids' academic skills sharp during the summer.franckreporter / Getty Images

Worried your kids will forget what they learned in school over the summer? Scholars have been studying the problem for over a century.

When William White, a New York state mathematics professor, set out in the early 1900s to...

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