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Swedish School-Age Educare Centres and German All-Day Schools -- A Bi-National Comparison of Two Prototypes of Extended Education
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Klerfelt, Anna; Stecher, Ludwig – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2018
In Sweden and in Germany, an extensive system of extended education programmes and activities has been established within the last decades. Prototypic examples of this development are school-age educare centres in Sweden and all-day schools in Germany. In this article a bi-national comparison, aiming to find some similarities and differences by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Extended School Day, Educational Change
The U.S. Writing Center Model for High Schools Goes to Germany: And What Is Coming Back?
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Braer, Gerd – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2006
The 2000 and 2003 international studies of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) among all Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries presented disappointing results for Germany's fifteen-year-old students' reading skills. These studies pointed out two necessities for future reform: to extend the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Studies, Special Needs Students, Educational Change
Prisoners of Time. Report of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning. The Education Commission of the States Education Reform Reprint Series. Reprint of the 1994 Report of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning
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Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2005
This revised edition of "Prisoners of Time" is designed to refocus attention on the critical issue of using time as a resource for teaching and learning. It contains the same text as the original report but also includes some up-to-date examples of the creative and productive ways in which schools can use time. State and local education…
Descriptors: Time Management, Time Factors (Learning), Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education