Sentences with phrase «lengthening school»

The negative effect that absences have on achievement suggests that lengthening the school day or year will not necessarily have the desired effect of raising student performance, but that policies to improve attendance might help.

Part of what's key about this new project, however, is not just lengthening the school day or year, but doing it in innovative ways that could reshape the structure of the school day, and how teachers and students think about learning.

The Liberian Ministry of Education planned to disrupt the status quo in Liberian classrooms by 1) lengthening the school day; 2) reducing class sizes; 3) holding teachers accountable for attendance; and 4) tackling the issue of teacher literacy.

Rather than lengthening the school day, which exhausts young children and deprives older children of the opportunity to engage in extracurricular activities and sports, a better alternative is to provide targeted, enriched learning activities, especially in the summer.

Lengthening the school day.

He then asked the union to reopen its contract and accept 2 % pay raises in exchange for lengthening the school day for students by 90 minutes.

They are taking bold steps to turn around low - performing schools by investing in teachers, rebuilding school staff, lengthening the school day and changing curriculums.

When we start to solve schooling issues from the position of lengthening the school day, we will create more problems than solutions because that time and money will have to be cut from something else.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Emanuel won a concession lengthening the school day by 90 minutes; union negotiators offset that increase by securing six half - days for teachers.

Key Findings Increasing instructional time through lengthening the school day or year is often discussed as one way to improve student performance.

The agreement essentially reverses a top - down approach to reform, giving individual schools local power over matters such as redesigning their governance, tailoring union contracts, lengthening the school day or making curricular decisions that lift student achievement.

More than half the parents polled, or 58 percent, said they did not approve of officials lengthening the school day, but more than one - third thought it was a good idea.

But how can you create more time for reading without lengthening the school day?

These admittedly rough estimates do not take into account the non-salary costs of lengthening the school year, such as teacher benefits, administrator compensation, and facilities costs (including air conditioning).

He would also increase the quantity of schooling by lengthening the school year (or offering disadvantaged students vouchers for summer school) and extending the age for compulsory schooling to 18.

The same interest groups were able to block some Risk recommendations that would have required real changes, such as lengthening the school year and assigning more homework (see Figures 9 - 11).

As education policymakers consider lengthening the school year and face trade - offs and uncertainties, it is important to recognize that expanding instructional time offers both opportunities and hazards for another reform that is well established, the accountability movement.

School places could be increased by lengthening the school day, opening longer over the year, having variety for teachers and creative «term» planning.

«Not just lengthening the school day, but a wide variety of afterschool activities: drama, art, sports, chess, debate, academic enrichment.

Summer learning loss is among the most pernicious — if least acknowledged — causes of achievement gaps in America's schools, notes David von Drehle in this week's Time Magazine, and lengthening the school year is the answer.

It was uncanny to hear him when he was talking about lengthening the school day or getting the best people into teaching or preK education, he was making the same arguments in almost the same language that we'd been making.

The initiatives outlined in the plan include lengthening the school day and year, implementation of a statewide teacher contract, consolidation of school districts, and increasing needs - based financial aid in the 2010 budget.

Strong American Schoolswill not endorse specific presidential candidates, but will instead focuson three components the group believes form the building blocks ofbetter schooling: a call for stronger, more consistent curriculum standards; lengthening the school day and year; and improving teacherquality through merit pay and other measures.

Emanuel has made lengthening the school day at Chicago Public Schools a cornerstone of his first months in office.

Lengthening the school day should not have been a priority in a time of fiscal...

I know our superintendent would like to solve this problem by lengthening the school day and then having a longer lunch.

Currently, nine schools have voted to lengthen their school day for this academic...

Meanwhile, the superintendent argued that the best solution would be to lengthen the school day.

Lewis, who has rejected the district's offer to serve on an advisory committee for instituting a lengthened school day next fall, when the district can do so without teacher approval, held her position Monday.

Buffalo teachers have become increasingly frustrated that union and school leaders have been unable to negotiate a new contract, and many have taken offense at the board's attempts to lengthen the school day and change other work rules without offering what they feel is adequate compensation.

A school that lengthened its school year would be disappointed in the results, not realizing that what it had really needed to do was to hire a charismatic leader.

The three - year project would also lengthen the school day from six to seven hours.

The district has also lengthened its school day, albeit by only 30 minutes, but it is the first change in the union - contracted school day since the district was created in the mid-1970s.

Other examples include low - performing schools that have lengthened their school day in an effort to improve, and the longer school days, weeks, and years in some charter schools.

Fletcher Maynard is part of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative, the first statewide effort to lengthen the school day or school year.

There's clearly a slam - dunk case for eliminating — or at least dramatically shortening — summer vacation, which fits into a broader push to lengthen the school year beyond the 180 days that is typical in the U.S.

Brooklyn Generation Brooklyn, NY In an effort to ensure sustainability, many expanded - time schools have pursued strategic staffing approaches to lengthen the school day or year without significantly increasing costs.

This spreadsheet shows the change in class size and teacher salary that would be needed in each state to lengthen the school year by 30 days without changing overall expenditures on teacher salaries.

How can schools substantially lengthen the school year without spending any more money than they currently have?

Massachusetts is renewing its push to lengthen the school day, from adding more charter schools to appealing for federal grant money that could bring longer days to more traditional public schools.

This program allows for public schools to develop innovative plans allowing them to suspend DOE and union rules to make changes within three categories: teacher evaluation rubrics, school day schedules (lengthen school days), and class size (smaller class sizes).

Revere's schools also used the money to hire reading coaches, a technology team — some even lengthened the school day.

In response, the Battle Creek Public Schools district has developed a plan to lengthen the school day by 50 minutes and delay start times from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. (Editorial, Longer school day makes sense (Nov. 22, 2011) BattleCreekEnquirer.com.)

Bounce... the Treasury took the lead on education policy, with the former chancellor announcing every school would be an academy and money to lengthen the school day would be found.

@Desertdiva1: I think what you really mean is to get rid of tenure and collective bargaining so that districts can lengthen the school day and school year without paying staff additional salary for the additional work.

musiclady wrote: I think what you really mean is to get rid of tenure and collective bargaining so that districts can lengthen the school day and school year without paying staff additional salary for the additional work.

Currently, schools with expanded learning time add, on average, 25 percent more time each year; 20 percent of such schools have lengthened the school year as well.

With its lengthened school day and school year, by the end of the 8th grade, Success Academy graduates receive the equivalent of two extra years of instruction.

As a Renew School, Quitman Street School was afforded the ability to hire new teaching staff, gain substantial infusions of technology and lengthen the school day.

In 2005, the state legislature created the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative and approved major funding to support high - poverty schools that lengthened the school year.