2009.10.04
Editorial: Longer school days
An academic exercise over school days
Longer and more school days could boost achievement, as the president suggests. But who would pay the bill?
Pay attention, public school students, the president has plans for your day. No, he's not giving another pep talk encouraging you to do your best in school like the one that got some of your parents all bent out of shape.
This time the president wants to seriously cut into your free time. His education secretary (Arne Duncan, for those of you who wish to scribble down his name in case it appears on a pop quiz) is pushing for longer school days and for more days in the school year.
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A FEW thoughts:
Sometimes less is more.
If school systems would "allow" educators to educate and not just teach to the SOL tests, learning COULD occur. Quantity or quality?
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." A. Einstein
Longer days - more work sheets!
Comment by Sally — October 4, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
GOOD POINT, SALLY
Comment by Nancy Hudson — October 5, 2009 @ 7:26 am