Summer Break Has Nothing to Do With Farming
00:00 — Introduction 00:34 — The Farming Calendar Does Not Work That Way 01:56 — How a Practical Fix Became a Sacred Cow 03:00 — What Summer Actually Does to Learning 04:26 — Wrap Up Sources: - PBS NewsHour — The myth of the agrarian summer break: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/debunking-myth-summer-break - Brookings — Summer learning loss: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/summer-learning-loss-what-we-know-and-what-were-learning/ - History of school summer vacation: https://time.com/5912708/history-of-summer-vacation/ Full interactive experience at thehigheriq.com: skip between…
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