From: JIM.DIXON@f240.n353.z1.fidonet.org (JIM DIXON)
Newsgroups: k12.chat.elementary
Subject: YRS_4 1/2
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 15:39:00 PST
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                         What They're Saying About
                           The Longer School Year
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"The urgent need is not lengthening the school year, but using more
effectively the time schools already have."

Ernest Boyer
President
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Former Commissioner of Education
Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
...........................................................................

"If IBM had a factory where 30% of all computers fell off the assembly line
while they were being manufactured and 95% of the finished computers didn't
work, the last thing in the world IBM would do would be to run the asembly
line another couple of months a year. They'd rethink the whole process.
That's good advice for us (educators) too."

Jack Bowsher
Past Education Director, IBM
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"Restructuring is more important to produce quality than adding more time.
Adding five or 10 days to the school year will be ineffective if the
program remains the same."

Gary Watts
Senior Director, Center for Information
National Education Association
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A task force of the National Association of State Boards of Education
researched the longer school year and found little evidence that extending
the school year would lead to increased student achievement.

Principal Magazine, May, 1984
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"Learning takes time but providing time does not in itself ensure that
learning will take place."
Other reforn options "have greater potential payoff than simply keeping the
school doors open for a longer period of time."

Nancy Karweit
Johns Hopkins Education Researcher
Time on Task: A Research Review
...........................................................................

"If you simply mechanically increase time in school as a response to
European and Japanese schools, then not much happens."

Henry Levin
Director, Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance
...........................................................................

"The quality of time spent in learning is more important than the quality.
Moreover, the costs of extending school time are disproportionate to any
resulting instructional gains."

Thomas Ellis
Research Analyst
Education Research Information Clearinghouse (ERIC)
...........................................................................

"Before we start extending the school year, we ought to make better use of
the time we have."

Richard Rossmiller
Professor, Department of Education Administration
University of Wisconsin
...........................................................................

"Simply giving students more of the same in unlikely to solve our
educational problems."

Albert Shanker
President, American Federation of Teachers
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"The extended school day/year, the research makes clear, is no solution."
"Before committing to this type of investment [longer school year],
policymakers should insist of concrete proof that they could expect to get
something for their<?> money, or that all the possible uses of available
education funds, buying more time is the best option."

National Education Association
1987 Research Report

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