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Peer reviewedUniver, Irving O. – CEFP Journal, 1974
The mandatory-staggered-attendance plan can significantly increase existing facilities capacity, reduce new facilities capacity requirements, effect substantial capital program economies, offer potential for operating economies, effect fuel-energy savings, and offer both operational and capital busing economies. (Author)
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Attendance, Budgets, Cost Effectiveness
Download full textWehmhoefer, Roy A. – 1968
The literature on the staggered four quarter system is reviewed, and the advantages and disadvantages of the system are discussed. (HW)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Facilities, Educational Programs, Extended School Year
Schlechty Associates, Chapel Hill, NC. – 1973
A preliminary analysis of parent responses to questions related to factual information about the Virginia Beach 45-15 pilot elementary school program, where students attend classes 45 days and break 15 days year round, is provided. Specifically, the information component of the Virginia Beach 45-15 Pilot Project Questionnaire, which consists of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Education, Experimental Programs, Item Analysis
Pruitt, Henry J. – 1974
There are many States without extended school year (ESY) enabling legislation or programs in operation. A few States have passed enabling ESY legislation and have no programs in operation. Others have ESY programs in operation without any specialized legislation. Several States have specialized ESY legislation and ESY programs in operation. This…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Extended School Year, National Surveys, Quarter System
Schofield, Dee – 1974
The first of a series of 13 monthly reports, this paper reviews the issue of the year-round school -- a variety of calendar changes aimed at increasing the educational and economic efficiency of the school system. The author first reviews the major pros and cons of the year-round controversy, focusing on the questions of potential learning…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Educational Quality
Shafer, J. E. – 1973
This report presents the results of a 1,044-person survey taken to determine public attitudes towards the concept of year-round schools in Guam. The study indicates the people of Guam will support a pilot 45-15 plan for two years in three elementary schools; and that variables such as sex, nationality, determination of leave schedules, and desire…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Evaluation Methods, Extended School Year, Feasibility Studies
Callahan, John J.; And Others – 1973
Year-round schools have a place in the urban education process. However, the many fiscal pressures facing large city school systems may prohibit them from instituting the rescheduled school year. Only if State governments make fundamental reforms in their educational finance systems can urban school districts participate in the benefits of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Equalization Aid, Fiscal Capacity, Full State Funding
PDF pending restorationGayden, Joyce, Comp.; Thornton, Barbara, Comp. – 1972
All materials in this 800-item bibliography are listed by year of publication and are categorized under each year's listing by: books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, booklets, and reports. The compilation represents part of the research work done in a study of the feasibility of the extended school year in Sough Carolina. (Compiler/EA)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Colleges, Elementary Schools, Extended School Year
McKague, Terence R.; Penner, Glen H. – 1971
This report is the result of a study to assess the feasibility of rescheduling the school year in the public schools of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada). The study directors limited their investigation to three approaches: the extended summer school, the divided year, and the rotational or cyclic. To assess the feasibility of each approach,…
Descriptors: Facility Utilization Research, Feasibility Studies, Financial Problems, Quarter System
Johnson, Sharon Counts – 1972
This review surveys documents, previously announced in RIE, that are concerned with the year-round school (staggered vacation periods) concept. The literature indicates that the year-round school plan should not be considered a panacea for the economic and learning problems in education. Most of the authors agree that schools should weigh…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Extended School Year
Stiff, Duane – Thrust for Educational Leadership, 1986
Poses six questions for administrators considering a year-round, multitrack school schedule. Discusses probable constraints concerning implementation levels, class organization, staff preparation, and impact on plant maintenance, summer school programs, and community relations. Classroom sharing and summer school present special difficulties;…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Elementary Secondary Education, Extended School Year, Kindergarten
Kneese, Carolyn – 2000
The year-round calendar is an increasingly popular alternative to the traditional 9-month school calendar. This digest examines the benefits and challenges of teaching in year-round schools. Year-round schools may be on a single-track or multi-track schedule. Single-track schedules call for an instructional year of 180 days with short breaks…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, School Schedules
Peer reviewedBaker, James; Johnson, Viola D. – School Management, 1973
The 45-15 plan in this California school district is educating four youngsters in a space designed for three with no overcrowding, is eliminating double sessions, and is relieving taxpayers of the immediate need to build more schools by making fuller use of schools that already exist. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Mexican Americans, Organizational Change
Holt, Howard B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1973
The change to year-round schools may precipitate system shock,'' which could lead to complete restructuring of cirriculum, athletics, and organization. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Extended School Year
Ames, Robert G. – Nat Sch, 1969
Reasons are given for the opposition of a survey group of parents and teachers to all alternatives for year-round school operation. (MF)
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Decision Making, Extended School Year, Policy Formation
