San Francisco Summer Learning Network: Free tours of Recology, aka the City Dump

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Free tours of Recology, aka the City Dump

501 Tunnel Ave., Visitacion Valley
Muni: 9L-San Bruno local
Check availability early for a great tour of the Recology (formerly Sunset Scavenger) recycling facility, Artist-in-Residence Program and Sculpture Garden. All students on the tour must be 9 and older, and groups are limited to 35 students and five chaperones. This is a fun tour that educates kids about the environment, recycling and reuse, as well as the interesting technology that handles tons of recyclable materials – and also inspires them with art made from discarded items, including the Sculpture Garden right at the dump.

For information or to schedule a tour, e-mail Micah Gibson, mgibson@recology.com

Because of the high demand, each program or organization is limited to one tour per year. Teachers who want to schedule tours during the school year should contact the Department of the Environment, 415/355-3700.

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A summer without enrichment is a summer with learning loss

“Deprived of healthy stimulation, millions of low-income kids lose a significant amount of what they learn during the school year. Call it 'summer learning loss,' as the academics do, or 'the summer slide,' but by any name summer is among the most pernicious — if least acknowledged — causes of achievement gaps in America's schools. Children with access to high-quality experiences can exercise their minds and bodies at sleep-away camp, on family vacations, in museums and libraries and enrichment classes. Meanwhile, children without resources languish on street corners or in front of glowing screens. By the time the bell rings on a new school year, the poorer kids have fallen weeks, if not months, behind. …

"And what starts as a hiccup in a 6-year-old's education can be a crisis by the time that child reaches high school. A major study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University concluded that while students made similar progress during the school year, regardless of economic status, the better-off kids held steady or continued to advance during the summer — while disadvantaged students fell back. By the end of grammar school, low-income students had fallen nearly three grade levels behind. By ninth grade, roughly two-thirds of the learning gap separating income groups could be blamed on summer learning loss.”

-- Time Magazine, "The Case Against Summer Vacation," Aug. 2, 2010

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Free tours of Recology, aka the City Dump

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