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In the early 1990s, the University of Minnesota's landmark School Start Time Study tracked high school students from two Minneapolis-area districts – Edina, a suburban district that changed its opening hour from 7:20 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and the Minneapolis Public Schools, which changed their opening from 7:20 a.m. to 8:40 a.m.
Start School Later currently has 137 volunteer-led chapters in 3 countries, 31 US states and Washington, D.C., has been featured in Beme, [11] The Huffington Post, [12] and Psychiatric News, [13] and has received media coverage and editorial support in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, BBC Brasil, WGBH ...
Further complicating the computation is the fact that American schools typically meet 180 days, or 36 academic weeks, a year. A semester (one-half of a full year) earns 1/2 a Carnegie Unit. [1] The Student Hour is approximately 12 hours of class or contact time, approximately 1/10 of the Carnegie Unit (as explained below).
In 2010–2011, 19 schools in 10 school districts will have schedules increase learning time by 300 hours across the school year. Research suggests that expanding instructional time is as effective as other commonly discussed educational interventions intended to boost learning, such as increasing teacher quality and reducing class size.
One special example of a period is the free period. These are typically shorter than regular periods and allow students to participate in non-class activities. A free period (also called a spare, unstructured, or leisure period) is generally found in most high schools and colleges. Students may utilize a free period for various purposes:
In December 2011, NCTL released a report Mapping the Field: A Report on Expanded-Time Schools in America [30] that identified 1,002 expanded-time schools, serving 520,000 students in 36 states in the U.S. as of the 2011–2012 school year. To identify these schools, NCTL used set criteria from its expanded-time schools database, the only ...
Education reform in the United States since the 1980s [1] has been largely driven by the setting of academic standards for what students should know and be able to do. These standards can then be used to guide all other system components. The SBE (standards-based education) reform [2] movement calls for clear, measurable standards for all ...
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