Sentences with phrase «longer school day»

When was the last time you heard a call for longer school days in a wealthy district?

Research on the academic impact of longer school days is mixed.

As longer school days become more popular, educators are making sure that additional time is more than just change for change's sake.

Because they operate independently, they're free to experiment with longer school days, disciplinary policy and teaching strategies.

More charter schools might allow for more innovation — including longer school days and different styles of teaching — because charters are exempt from many regulations.

And for secondary schools we're going to fund longer school days for those that want to offer their pupils a wider range of activities, including extra sport.

On average, only 25 percent of charter schools report using proven innovations like longer school days, independent study, and school work programs.

For example, they can require longer school days and a longer school year, small class sizes, student uniforms, and increased parental involvement.

Many people, including me, have been demanding longer school days and years.

As a result, some charter networks with consistently strong student outcomes offer significantly longer school days and nearly year - round school in order to support working families.

That allows them to more easily establish longer school days or years, adopt or create their own curricula, and use new ways to recruit, reward and retain teachers and administrators.

• The commission's recommendation on time was a call for longer school days and years.

Achievement First boasts a number of highlights in the educational performance of their students, as well as longer school days, character education, and intense literacy environment.

She also cited as successful a series of new initiatives, including experiments with longer school days and home visits by teachers.

They include longer school days, stricter teacher evaluations, and greater management flexibility on classroom schedules and teacher placements.

NEW YORK — Twenty city public schools will implement longer school days for thousands of high - need students across the city as part of a pilot program this fall, the Department of Education and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday.

The bottles are designed to retain heat or ice for hours, making them ideal for keeping students cool during long school days in Hawaii's hot tropical climate.

That might mean longer school days or new curricula that weave reading lessons into all subjects.

GEO Academies provide longer school days and a longer school year to ensure student success.

The National Education Association (NEA), the nations largest teachers union, has no official position on longer school days, and is letting affiliates handle the issue as it comes up, said Barbara Kapinus, a senior policy analyst for the association.

In the past year, Emanuel stripped teachers of a 4 percent pay raise, and his effort to institute longer school days while sidestepping the union contract has infuriated union members.

Proponents of year - round schools and longer school days say they will solve our nation's concerns about school performance and produce more globally competitive citizens.

Those who want to legislate longer school days without considering the logistics will realize the hard way that they are creating more problems and wasting everyone's time.

Certainly, the freedom that results from the autonomy to define the ways in which the school operates, how long the school day will be, what the behavior and personnel policies will be, and how the school allocates staff to students in the presence of content are critical elements.

The district will be training schools for longer school days starting as early as this September.

Among other things, many charter schools fit more instructional hours into a year by running longer school days and providing instruction on weekends and during the summer (Wilson 2008; Hoxby, Murarka, and Kang 2009; Matthews 2009).

Lewis called the uproar over longer school days and teacher pay a «political issue» not driven by the new leadership at CPS.

They recommended longer school days and school years, and all day pre-kindergarten for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

They are usually nonunion and have fewer regulations to follow, giving them flexibility that permits longer school days.

«If you ask the average teacher, «Do you think longer school days work?»

That pays for 300 extra hours of instruction yearly for all students through longer school days and three additional weeks in school, specialists who focus on children struggling with reading and math, job coaches who mentor teachers weekly and carts full of iPads.

Yesterday, while visiting our fair city, he came out in favor of Mayor Emanuel's longer school day plan, saying that it has been a «badge of shame» for CPS.

The strike's key issues included the use of test scores in evaluations — state law specified they had to be included; the questions were how and how much — and the implementation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's longer school day proposal without a proportionate pay raise.

While this is specific to CPS < there are lessons to be learned for any schools, districts or school systems considering longer school days.

Growing up in Edinburgh, I have distinct memories of going to school as the street lights went off and them coming on again on my way home, and we didn't have particularly long school days.

In many ways, Lewis, 58, a brash, tough - talking South Side product of Chicago's public school system, is an unlikely foil to Emanuel and CPS leaders in the national push toward longer school days.

That, plus a seriously long school day (8 am to 3:15), means a big change around here: three kids bringing school lunches every day.

He also said he is willing to meet at union headquarters to bring the CTU to the table and begin discussions over the district's longer school day initiative.

A group of veteran charter school proponents has filed with the State Education Department to take over East High and Waterfront, dropping union contracts and adding longer school days and longer school years.

A brief stint teaching troubled students at schools in Brooklyn and on Rikers Island convinced Mitchell of the need for strong schools — he advocates longer school days and tougher tenure rules — as well as more jobs and after - school options for youth.

Twelve school districts take part in this program, which not only involves longer school days and summer programs but also includes redesigns of the curriculum to accommodate individual needs.

Officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District are weighing longer school days, but fewer of them, as an answer to a severe fiscal crisis.

Some parents did not like them because of a 45 - minute longer school day or because they thought the work was too hard, according to Edwards.

«We also feel the slightly lengthier day will benefit the older children who will face longer school days when they transition to secondary school.»

Roxbury Prep is known for its strict discipline, including mandatory uniforms of blue shirts and khaki pants; long school days lasting eight hours or more; and a firm code of conduct that forbids things such as speaking in the hallways.

In a statement, Mr Osborne said funding for extended hours would be available to «at least 25 per cent» of schools and he would support secondaries who «want to offer their pupils longer school days with more extra-curricular activities like sport and art».

Right now, more than 20,000 children are on waiting lists for the state's charter schools, which feature longer school days, better schedules, and, in many cases, higher MCAS scores.

(a slightly longer school day than most traditional public schools)