While away from school, students forget much of what they learned in the previous school year, including reading skills and in mathematics (French 28). This learning loss disadvantages all students, but it harms low-income students the most. These students generally have little access to the summer classes that their higher-income counterparts enjoy. This could partly explain the possible large educational gap between low-income and high-income students. What begins as a slow regression each summer, can eventually translate into a considerable gap once students enter secondary or higher education (Mazzochi