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About 60 children at Common Place Learning Center named states, solved math problems, and learned about the U.S. Constitution. It was the final day of the center's Brain Bowl summer youth programs. Helen Jenkins is with Common Place. She says the program helps struggling students continue to learn after classes let out in the spring: “If they do not do anything educational during the summer they can lose up to a semester’s worth of educational skills that they’re going to have to repeat when they go back to school the first year so we’re trying to prevent that,” Jenkins says.
“It’s what a lot of people refer to as summer slide.”
Jenkins says students in the program are eight to 15 years old and spent the summer learning science, math and English. They also helped with neighborhood clean-up projects and community gardens. |
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