Corporate Citizenship Report - News - Helping curb summer learning loss

See how TI helped bridge the summer vacation gap and encourage #STEM education with @girls_inc

At this point in their summer vacation, many students have forgotten some of what they learned during the school year. In fact, researchers say students will likely lose a month or more of math skills over the course of the summer break. To help combat the "summer slide," TI supports organizations devoted to making high quality summer learning available to all students. "Statistics show that without summer programs, a lot of students lose ground," said Trisha Cunningham, TI's chief citizenship officer. "We partner with these organizations to help mitigate the losses taking place in the summer and instead take advantage of the extra time to advance students to higher goals." Bridging the summer vacation gap TI's long relationship with Girls Inc. is part of the company's ongoing focus on engaging girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education, subjects m...

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