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Georgia officials offering tips to combat “Summer Brain Drain”

Charmaine Joseph teaches kindergartners at Dunleith Elementary School in Marietta, which receives plenty of transfer students, including four in one recent week. The governor’s office this summer released its first research on the issue, called student mobility or the churn rate. The statewide mobility rate is about 17 percent, the report found. In metro Atlanta, Clayton County has the highest mobility rate, at about 31 percent. Marietta, which has a glut of apartment complexes, is near the top, at 27 percent. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
Charmaine Joseph teaches kindergartners at Dunleith Elementary School in Marietta, which receives plenty of transfer students, including four in one recent week. The governor’s office this summer released its first research on the issue, called student mobility or the churn rate. The statewide mobility rate is about 17 percent, the report found. In metro Atlanta, Clayton County has the highest mobility rate, at about 31 percent. Marietta, which has a glut of apartment complexes, is near the top, at 27 percent. KENT D. JOHNSON/KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM
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June 2, 2015

The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning is offering daily tips and learning tools for parents to help prevent “summer brain drain.”

Research shows when children are out of school for the summer, there can be a regression in skills if they’re not engaged in a variety of learning activities. A worst-case scenario can include a child losing the equivalent of one to three months’ worth of learning over the summer, according to state officials.

To help combat this "summer brain drain," state officials are offering the daily tips — called DIY Summer — which will be posted each day to the state's early care and learning (DECAL) Facebook and Twitter pages.

For more information, visit www.summerlearning.org.

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