More and Better Learning Time
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6 August 2012Making Time for Student Achievement
The New York Times reports on the growing number of schools that are redesigning the school day and year to give students more time to learn—and to help them learn better.
When it comes to hours in the classroom, “better is as important as the more,” explains Jeannie Oakes, director of the Ford Foundation’s work on educational opportunity and scholarship. Arne Duncan, U.S. secretary of education, is among the leaders speaking out in support of a revamped school calendar. “The fact that our calendar has been based on the agrarian economy when almost none of our kids work in the field anymore,” he tells the Times, “doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.”
What does make sense: Matching the school day and year to the learning needs of students and the lives of working families—and making more and better learning time the “new normal” in American education.
More Information
- Read The New York Times article
- Join the conversation on Twitter: #expandlearning
- Watch an animated video that makes the case for expanded learning time
- Explore our More and Better Learning Time initiative
- Visit the Time to Succeed Coalition website and follow TSC on Twitter and Facebook
- Learn more about the National Center on Time and Learning and follow NCTL on Twitter and Facebook
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