Although many families spend thousands of dollars on their trips, educational vacations do not need to be expensive.
More troubling is that it disproportionately affects low-income students: they lose two months of reading skills, while their higher-income peers — whose parents can send them to enriching camps, take them on educational vacations and surround them with books during the summer — make slight gains.
The Caribbean is especially alluring this time of year, and though the islands are overrun with honeymooners and families (Club Med being an exception as I learned last fall), there are some good choices for solo travelers, including educational vacations (see below).
It used to mean spending your junior year of college at a university in another country, but in the last five years there has been a significant increase in other types of overseas programs: summer study, educational vacations for grade school students and specialized courses for graduate students.
We plan educational vacations that render our loved ones miserable, we build tree houses that crash dangerously to the ground, and, sometimes, we buy rural getaways that make our children wish to God they had school on weekends.
Washington, D.C.'s plethora of museums and monuments makes it an obvious choice for an educational family vacation.
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There are several causes behind the unique distribution during this time period, including the change of office time (10 a.m. 3 p.m ., expanded shopping for evening meals and festivities, student vacations from educational institutions, increased attendance at prayer times, and the greater presence of people in the mosque throughout the day.
More than 120 years later, Chautauqua still blends the educational and recreational.It was at vacation spots that society's norms were tested and changed.
"Even a beach vacation can be educational if you take some time to learn about the different types of shells you find along the coastline, or the various birds and gulls you see living in sand dunes".
