High Quality Child Care Promotes Healthy Development, School Readiness, and School Success

Decades of research has documented what is referred to as the “summer slide" – the impact of summer vacation’s learning loss on the educational achievement of children, particularly low-income children. The achievement gap is not really a result of “summer slide” alone but the cumulative effect that begins with school readiness. View this fact sheet for research and statistics on the importance of high-quality care and summer learning.

Publisher
Office of Child Care (OCC)
Author
National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE)
Resource Type
Other
Length
4 pages
Publication Date
Archive Status
Unarchived