Kathy Horvath

Kathy Horvath is a school-based practitioner and coauthor of No More Summer-Reading Loss (Not This, But That), published by Heinemann, where she writes alongside Carrie Cahill, Anne McGill-Franzen, and Richard L. Allington on practical ways educators can prevent summer reading loss and support students’ year-round reading growth. In the book’s lead chapter, she and Cahill describe research-informed school-year practices and summer projects that help sustain students’ reading achievement over the break.

Horvath’s work on No More Summer-Reading Loss has been cited in discussions of the “summer slide,” emphasizing the role of school support, book access, and family engagement in maintaining children’s literacy development during summer vacation.