each new school year brings fresh reminders of what educators call the summer learning gap. some call it the summer learning setback（退步）. simply speaking, it means the longer kids are out of school, the more they forget. the only thing they might gain is weight.
most american schools follow a traditional nine-month calendar. students get winter and spring breaks and about ten weeks of summer vacation. some schools follow a year-round calendar. they hold classes for about eight weeks at a time, with a few weeks off in between. the national association for year-round education says there were fewer than three thousand such schools at last count. they were spread among forty-six of the fifty states.
but many experts point out that the number of class days in a year-round school is generally the same as in a traditional school. lead researcher paul von hippel said, “year-round schools don't really solve the problem of the summer learning setback. they simply spread it out across the year.”
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