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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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Pedersen, James – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2012
For more than 100 years the public school system has been the foundation of our society. Millions of our nation's citizens have moved through the primary, middle and secondary schools which, although they vary slightly from region to region, provided a shared experience and are a part of Americana. History tells us the reasons that school systems…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Vacations, School Schedules
Huffman, George Eugene – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to analyze demographic and school data, as well as data on the perceptions of teachers regarding the impact that a modified year-round school calendar has on student achievement, student behavior, and teacher efficacy. Prior research and literature examined the impact of year-round school calendars on student…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Scheduling, Year Round Schools, Academic Achievement
Ramos, Barbara K. – Online Submission, 2012
This study examines a mid-west elementary school transitioning from a school-within-a-school calendar, offering both year-round and traditional calendars, to a year-round only calendar. The satisfaction of teachers and families with the transition, and the factors that teachers and families consider in making a calendar selection, were examined…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, Elementary Schools, Suburban Schools, Satisfaction
Dessoff, Alan – District Administration, 2011
For administrators, teachers, students and their families in some districts, summer isn't what it used to be. Trying to stem a "summer slide" of learning loss by students and also to avoid having to build more schools to cope with overcrowding, districts are operating on year-round schedules that shorten the traditional summer vacation…
Descriptors: School Schedules, School Districts, Competition, Year Round Schools
Merrill, Carolyn Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to determine the impact of the year-round education school calendar on the standardized test performance of fifth grade African American students, as measured by the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) in reading. The ISAT reading scores from two year-round education (YRE)…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, Grade 5, African American Students, Reading Achievement
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Ramos, Barbara Kay – ERS Spectrum, 2011
This study found that students in settings with a year-round calendar statistically outperformed students with traditional calendars in a school-within-a-school setting in mathematics. The study included reading and math achievement of fifth graders in three school-within-a-school year-round elementary schools. Overall, the study made 16…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grade 5, Achievement Gains, Reading Achievement
Naylor, Charlie – British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2012
There has been little attention paid to the issue of Year-Round Schools (YRS) in British Columbia's public education system since 1996. The British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF) Research conducted extensive research into the issue of year-round schooling in the mid 1990s, when the growth in student enrolment was significant. At that time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Research Reports, Year Round Schools
Farbman, David; Davis, Jennifer; Goldberg, David; Rowland, Julie – Education Commission of the States, 2015
The National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), an organization dedicated to redesigning and expanding school time to improve opportunities and outcomes for high-poverty students, has again teamed up with the Education Commission of the States (ECS), whose mission it is to foster the exchange of ideas on education issues among the states, to…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Extended School Day, Extended School Year, Educational Change
Joyner, Stacey; Molina, Concepcion; Beckwith, Shirley; Williams, Haidee – Texas Comprehensive Center, 2011
The impact of class time lengths on student achievement is a complex issue with multiple extraneous factors and without definitive answers. A major theme across many of the studies reviewed is that the amount of instructional time is not so important as how that time is spent. Key points include: (1) The commonly held conception that students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Time Factors (Learning), Time Management, Misconceptions
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McMullen, Steven C.; Rouse, Kathryn E. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
This study exploits a unique policy environment and a large panel dataset to evaluate the impact of school crowding on student achievement in Wake County, NC. We also estimate the effects of two education policy initiatives that are often used to address crowding: multi-track year-round calendars and mobile classrooms. We estimate a multi-level…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement, Individual Characteristics, Crowding
Henkel, Tara – Online Submission, 2010
This paper explores the standard traditional summer vacation model; this includes the accompanying food insecurity, loss of nutrition and the lost knowledge that must be re-taught at the beginning of each new academic year. It compares the number of academic days attended in various Industrialized Nations compared to the United States. Also,…
Descriptors: Vacations, School Schedules, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Lyttle, LeighAnne – Online Submission, 2011
This document serves as a literature review for the practicality and cost effectiveness of traditional versus year-round school systems. The differences in year-round and traditional schools are many, as the debate lingers on which type is best for students' learning. Generally conclusive, the literature indicates that year-round schools' benefits…
Descriptors: Year Round Schools, Traditional Schools, Teacher Motivation, School Districts
Dixon, Asenith – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
In recent years, lean economic conditions have led to state and local agency budget cuts, including reductions to elementary and secondary education. To compensate for less state funding and decreasing local revenues, many state legislatures have passed policy and funding bills that give school systems more latitude in making finance and program…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Nontraditional Education, School Activities, Day Schools
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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
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