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Compton-Lilly, Catherine – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2010
Time regulates the lives of educators. Time on task, 45-minute classes, 2-hour literacy blocks, 10-week marking periods, and 40-week school years are central to teachers' lives and to the operation of schools. In contemporary schools, benchmarks, standards, promotion, retention, graduation, and ultimately school success are all intricately…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Time on Task, Literacy, Writing Instruction
Meier, Daniel – 1994
Selected findings are presented from a qualitative, observational study of the relationship between a choice time event and literacy learning in an urban public school's kindergarten in California. The complicated interplay between the overall structure of an event and the small ways one teacher daily framed and guided children's participation in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Literacy, Preschool Teachers