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How community schools can beat summer learning loss for low-income students

  • Written by Laura Bronstein, Dean of the College of Community and Public Affairs Professor, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageSchool closure over the summer widens the achievement gap between classes.School chair image via www.shutterstock.com

This article is a part of The Conversation’s series on summer learning loss. For other articles in this series, read here and here.

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