During absence from school, students forget much of what they learned in the previous school year, especially reading and math skills (French 28). This learning loss disadvantages all students, but especially harms low-income students. These students typically have little access to the summer learning that their higher-income peers enjoy. This may be one explanation for the possible large academic gap between lower-income students and higher-income students. What begins as a slow regression each summer can eventually present itself in a sizable gap once students begin secondary school or higher education (Mazzochi