Kudos to Michael Hicks of Union County Public Schools for his petition supporting school calendar flexibility. This year, our county, Union County Public Schools, adopted a schedule where children came…
Something that has increasingly made little sense is the strict adherence to the college two-semester system, with students attending in the fall and spring with summers off. More and more…
Evidently there’s some controversy brewing about school start and end dates. North Carolina has this ridiculous calendar law mandating that the school year for public schools must start no earlier…
Should North Carolina mandate that kids spend more time in school each day and year? John Locke Foundation education policy analyst Terry Stoops separates data from rhetoric in this column.
The bloodshed will take a ten week break and resume in August.
According to kids interviewed for the Charlotte Observer’s “Young Voices” column, the state should eliminate standardized tests. No surprise there. Kids also like the idea of shortening the school year.…
Those wild and crazy N&O editors are at it again! They like Obama’s idea to extend the school day and year, because they believe that more time = more knowledge.…
USA Today wants America’s public schools to add time to the school day and year in an effort to raise student achievement. The evidence is not in their favor. Countries…
The N&R follows up on GCS Superintedent Terry Grier’s plan for additional class time. Meanwhile, evidence that more instruction time produces better results is lacking.
I predicted that proposals to extend the school day and year would be the next “flavor of the month” reform idea put forward by North Carolina’s education establishment. The problem…