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von Hippel, Paul T.; Graves, Jennifer – Education Next, 2023
After millions of American schoolchildren fell behind during the COVID-19 pandemic, some states and school districts are looking at year-round school calendars as a way to recoup lost learning. Typically, year-round calendars don't increase learning time but rather spread school days more equally across 12 months, with a shorter summer vacation…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, COVID-19
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Graves, Jennifer; McMullen, Steven; Rouse, Kathryn – Education Finance and Policy, 2013
In the face of school crowding and fears about inequality-inducing summer learning loss, many schools have started to adopt multitrack year-round school calendars, which keep the same number of school days, but spread them more evenly across the calendar year. This change allows schools to support a larger student population by rotating which…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, At Risk Students
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Graves, Jennifer – Economics of Education Review, 2011
Using detailed longitudinal data for the state of California, this paper estimates the effect of year-round school calendars on nationally standardized test performance of traditionally disadvantaged students. The student subgroups studied in this paper are: low socioeconomic status, limited English proficiency, Hispanic and Latino, and African…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, School Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Standardized Tests