What Can We Learn from the Data? Toward a Better Understanding of the Effects of Multitrack Year-Round Schooling.

Shields, Carolyn; Oberg, Steven Lynn

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ERIC Number: EJ587026

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Publication Date: 1999

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What Can We Learn from the Data? Toward a Better Understanding of the Effects of Multitrack Year-Round Schooling.

Shields, Carolyn; Oberg, Steven Lynn

Urban Education, v34 n2 p125-54 May 1999

Compares student academic and nonacademic outcomes for year-round (YR) and traditional-calendar schools in a metropolitan school district with 36% of its elementary students in YR schools. Interviews with teachers and administrators in six schools suggest reasons for the better academic achievement in YR schools. (SLD)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Outcomes of Education, School Schedules, Urban Schools, Year Round Schools

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Research supported in part by a grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.