June, July and August are vacation months for most American school children. But some young students pay a high price for that long summer break. They may forget much of what they learned over the past year by the time they start the next grade. This problem is often called the summer learning gap. 6月,7月和8月是大多数美国学生的放假时间,但有的学生为了这个夏日长假付出了高昂代价.等到下一年级开始时,他们可能会忘记上一年学的很多东西.这这个问题通常被称作夏季学习缺口.
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a growing effort across the country earns to deal with it by offering more interesting summer school programs. some students already attend summer school, but often because they received poor grades during regular school year