Balancing the school calendar
Subtitle: perspectives from the public and stakeholders
By: edited by Carolyn Kneese and Charles Ballinger.
Contributors: Kneese, Carolyn, 1941-; Ballinger, Charles.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781578868780; 9781578868797; 9781578869770
Subjects: Year-round schools -- United States; School improvement programs -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Summer vacation of our discontent / Frederick M. Hess; title: Restructuring American education / Lloyd H. Elliot; title: U.S. students need longer school year / William L. Bainbridge; title: Poll says Floridians willing to accept year-round schools / Michael Fisher ... [et al.]; title: Balanced calendar schools: a case for combining structural change and transformative leadership / Carolyn M. Shields and Steven Lynn Oberg; title: The modified calendar: benefits for teachers / Shelly Gismondi Haser; title: Report on school and community attitudes to modified school calendars / Harris Cooper ... [et al.]; title: Experiencing school year-round: an administrator's perspective / Douglas Roby; title: Effects of year-round education upon performance indicators / Ann Grooms; title: Multi-tracking in school calendar reform / Sam Pepper; title: Grounding calendar change: a call for re-imagining continuous learning / Don Glines; title: Beyond mere balancing of the calendar: a comprehensive time reform model / John Hodge Jones; title: An English perspective on calendar reform through an examination of one school's innovatory practices / Trevor Kerry.