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Direct linkLong, Daniel A. – Educational Policy, 2014
Educational reformers use international evidence to argue that increasing the number of days in school and the length of the school day will improve academic achievement. However, the international data used to support these claims (1999 Third International Math and Science Survey and 2000 Program for International Student Assessment) show no…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Extended School Year, Extended School Day, Academic Achievement
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
