Many learning opportunities in subjects not widely available to students a generation ago have swelled curriculum offerings, and, in an effort to enrich its programs, larger school districts have been prompted to move toward an "extended school year" as a solution. This document reports the results of a study made to ascertain if the school year…

Describes features of the Arlington County (Virginia) Extended Day program, which has been in existence for nine years, is designed to provide after-school-hours day care for the elementary school children of working parents, and is in operation in 21 of Arlington's 25 elementary schools. (TA)

Due to working parents, unsafe home conditions, and mass-media pressures, schools are becoming increasingly involved with providing child care for school-age children. While afterschool care poses a number of design, funding, and equity problems, schools and communities can resolve them to the great benefit of the children served. (MLH)

By lengthening school days and moving to a four-day school week, the Cimarron (New Mexico) School District not only saved energy and transportation costs but also won teacher, student, and parent approval and saw student scores rise on national standardized tests. (RW)

Describes seven features of effective summer schools from recent Southern Regional Education Board report with examples of state legislation in support of each of these features. For example, summer school should be an integral part of a year-round program of extra time and extra help. Includes description of relevant Kentucky, California,…

Discusses the disparity in academic achievement between African American males and males and females from other ethnic groups, recommending after school programs to provide services for addressing and decreasing these disparities. Notes policy issues affecting the targeted population, presents four programs that have successfully improved academic…

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…

The National Education Commission on Time and Learning (NECT&L) was authorized by Congress to conduct a comprehensive review of the relationship between time and learning in elementary-secondary education, including international comparisons, the use of time in and out of school, the use of facilities, year-round professional opportunities for…

This study was conducted to investigate teacher attitudes with respect to changing to a year-round school program. The hypothesis was that a majority of teachers would be opposed to changing the traditional 180 day schedule to a year-round schedule. The population in this study consisted of all the classroom teachers in a rural county of North…

A review of research on the feasibility of extending the school day/year is the purpose of this report. The first section discusses the outcomes of such proposals since April 1983 and concludes that they have failed to generate widespread acceptance. The second part assesses the validity of international comparisons used to justify such proposals.…

This article describes a before- and after-school day care program for elementary school children that has been operating in Arlington, Virginia since 1969. After a discussion of the need for child care before and after school hours, five areas of operation of the Extended Day Program in the Arlington Public Schools are considered: (1) funding;…

THE PURPOSE WAS TO OBTAIN EVALUATIVE DATA FROM BOYS AND GIRLS ENROLLED IN SCHOOL DISTRICT'S EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM FOR ACADEMICALLY ABLE AND TALENTED PUPILS, AND FROM THEIR PARENTS, AND TO MAKE COMPARISONS BETWEEN PUPILS' AND PARENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE. TWO OPINIONNAIRES WERE DEVELOPED FOR PUPILS AND PARENTS. THEY WERE ADMINISTERED TO…

THE DISADVANTAGED POPULATION IS IDENTIFIED AND SPECIFIC COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS COMPENDIUM, ANALYSIS, AND CRITICAL EVALUATION OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. SUBJECTS SPECIFICALLY DISCUSSED ARE--(1) THE STATUS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (2) INNOVATIONS IN SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND STAFFING PATTERNS, (3)…

The major purpose of this study was to present some findings relative to the benefits and the effectiveness of total learning in a full-day-kindergarten program as compared to the traditional half-day kindergarten program. To do this the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation of Indiana, implemented and conducted a full-day kindergarten pilot…

This report evaluates an experimental trimester plan adopted by a Birmingham (Alabama) high school during the 1976-77 school year. The Birmingham trimester plan maintained the usual length school year, simply dividing it into three "mesters," rather than the traditional two. The plan also lengthened each class period to 85 minutes, so…