Schools Matter: The cure for the summer reading slump: An increased investment in libraries

Schools Matter: The cure for the summer reading slump: An increased investment in libraries:

The cure for the summer reading slump: An increased investment in libraries

by skrashen

Sent to the Tri-City Herald, (Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, Wash.)

The decline in reading achievement over the summer ("Mid-Columbia schools try to beat student forgetfulness," Aug. 28) is actually an argument for increased funding for public libraries.

Some of the research reports on the summer slump, including Barbara Heyns' original study of summer learning published in 1975, strongly suggest that reading scores go down during the summer because low-income