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summer employment

Summer vacation, summer job, or summer school?

By Paul Katula • Feb 17, 2021
One plan for Covid relief is to send kids to summer school to "catch up" on any ground they lost academically during the pandemic.

On year-round schooling’s impact on summer

By Paul Katula • Aug 8, 2016
One publisher in Baltimore wonders if we should have kids go to school year-round. It's worth the dialog, but it's a little complicated.
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