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Four-Day School Weeks
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1832864,00.html Four-Day School Weeks The kids in Caldwell Parish will be ditching a lot of school this year (2008). Every Monday, to be precise--and they're doing so with the principal's permission. Starting Aug. 11, this rural school system in northeastern Louisiana will hold classes only four days a week, following the lead of more than 100 school districts in 17 states. The reason? To save gas money. With the new calendar, the number of hours Caldwell Parish pupils spend in class won't change. Instead, each of the four days of instruction will be lengthened an hour, and recesses and other breaks will be shortened. At the district's junior highs, for example, the school day will commence at 7:50 a.m. and end at 4:09 p.m. |
 
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Four-day week on the rise in education
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=54858 Four-day week on the rise in education High gas prices, long commutes have colleges and K-12 schools taking a close look at longer days, shorter weeks. Experimenting with four-day school weeks is becoming popular in some of the (USA) country's most remote school districts, where buses travel hundreds of miles for student pickups, drop offs, and sporting events. |
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Is the four-day school week good for education?
http://www.edutopia.org/poll-four-day-school-week Is the four-day school week good for education? |
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Prisoners Of Time
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PrisonersOfTime/index.html Prisoners Of Time Report of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning April 1994 Our conclusions and recommendations speak for themselves. Time is the missing element in our great national debate about learning and the need for higher standards for all students. Our schools and the people involved with them-students, teachers, administrators, parents, and staff-are prisoners of time, captives of the school clock and calendar. We have been asking the impossible of our students-that they learn as much as their foreign peers while spending only half as much time in core academic subjects. The reform movement of the last decade is destined to founder unless it is harnessed to more time for learning. |
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New school day at SIS in Hong Kong
http://tinyurl.com/hd2jc New school day at SIS in Hong Kong (Sept2006) Two week timetable | periods are 2 hours | use of smart cards (Octopus Cards) for registration | |
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New school day structure for Bristol Grammar (UK)
http://tinyurl.com/ek38z New school day (2004) structure for Bristol Grammar (UK) The set pattern of term lengths: Autumn ?7+6 weeks; Spring ?6+6 weeks; Summer: 6+5 weeks. The target figure of pupil days in the year to be 175, rather than the existing 175.5 |
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Structure Of The School Day : Tonbridge School
http://www.tonbridge-school.co.uk/pastoralcare/schoolday.usml Structure Of The School Day : Tonbridge School (UK) There are five teaching periods (of 40 minutes each) every morning, including Saturdays, and two teaching periods in the afternoons of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. There are thus 36 periods in a week. However, the teaching timetable is based not on a six-day week, but on a ten-day cycle of 60 periods ...... |
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The Use of Time in Schools
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit/pdf/use_of_time.pdf The Use of Time in Schools ... length of the school day ... The Next Practice project, Resourcing Aspects of Personalisation investigates how schools might marshal and deploy their resources more effectively to support an educational provision that meets the needs of all learners. This event looks specifically at the resource of time. A timetable, many now acknowledge, should be made to fit a student? needs rather a student being made to fit a timetable. Moreover, recent thinking about future directions in the labour market suggests that, as computers take over more and more of our routine tasks, students will need highly-developed skills of self-organisation and self-scheduling to be successful in employment. Schools will not develop these capabilities within their students unless they provide flexibility and encourage choice. |
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