summer vacation

Gail Shister delivers an inspiring review of Mountain Meadow - one of the country's few camps for children in GLBT families.

Gail writes, "At this unusual overnight camp, in South Jersey, no one asks youngsters who their real parents are or why their family's not normal. And that makes all the difference."

It’s a documented fact that children’s reading skills drop during the summer months. Children furthest down the socio-economic scale are the most likely to lose ground but all kids are at risk. Children have lots of playtime during the summer months but no instructional time in reading. So what’s to be done?