… the Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab, and her team recently surpassed the 500-student mark in those who’ve been served by her lab’s summer program partnership with … academic scores decline during summer vacation. So, as summer vacation begins, a student’s performance level reflects the academic year of learning progress. During … can shift dramatically. By the end of the summer, reading scores tend to decrease for most students. Reading is experience-dependent in that readers improve with …