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How the RISE program helps students avoid 'summer slide'
Brenau's six-week learning effort helps kids retain knowledge over break
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Students toss their caps in the air Friday, July 13, 2018, at Fair Street International School following a RISE summer program graduation ceremony in the school's gymnasium. Real Interactive Summer Learning Experience is a six-week program that targets summer learning loss in children beginning at age 7. It was created and is led by Brenau education students and professors. - photo by Scott Rogers
The summer slide, it’s called, a worry some parents have that their children might forget what they’ve learned during the last school year while the seasonal break extends into its dog days. But if parents with children in the Real Interactive Summer Learning Experience were looking for confirmation that their little students had succeeded immensely in the six-week program, they got it on Friday, July 13 at the Fair Street International Academy.