… Shifting From the “Summer Slump” to Summer Success … Shifting From the “Summer Slump” to Summer Success Topics Research Area of Expertise Literacy & Language Researcher Dr. Joanna Christodoulou, thanks to a grant from accounting firm RSM, tripled the number of Charlestown elementary school … skills and better prepared to succeed in their new grade. Their improvement comes from MGH Institute researcher Joanna Christodoulou ’s lab members, a team of 19 …

… head?  For decades, there was an assumption that summer slump impacted students from lower socio-economic status (SES) backgrounds more than their peers. The … to study how to counter summer slide, and overall our community benefits from these partnerships with our neighborhood schools and families.  Congratulations … out even more challenging work because the infrastructure to succeed is available from their teaching team. We hope to amplify and extend stories like this one, …

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… with plans to add more. The number of active grants has increased 18-fold, from two to 36. More than 50 PhD students and postdocs have been trained by 25 active … with students at Harvard-Kent Elementary School in Charlestown with a grant from the accounting firm RSM, she received a $3.9 million R01 grant from the National … sciences and disorders, and Dr. Julie Keysor, a professor of physical therapy, offers monthly meetings with established researchers. Another initiative is the …