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Download full textMorales, Erik E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
This case study documents a university and secondary school partnership designed to improve classroom management and student time on task at an urban charter high school. The initiative utilized the expertise and knowledge of college of education faculty to identify and ameliorate the high school's observed barriers to students' time on task, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Urban Schools
Johnston, J. Howard – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2009
The amount of time allocated for learning and the way that time is used is one of the few variables that can be influenced rather directly by school leaders. Fortunately, it is also a variable that has shown consistent links to student performance. Now that schools are focused directly, and in some cases exclusively, on student achievement, there…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Time on Task, Educational Opportunities, Time Factors (Learning)
Policy Brief, 1993
Parents, teachers, and government officials agree that America's schools must be reformed. However, new research suggests that most reforms will not work without closer attention to one critical resource--time. This document presents findings of a study conducted by the Rand Institute on Education and Training, which found that any reform takes…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWalberg, Herbert J.; And Others – Peabody Journal of Education, 1994
Discusses productive use of time and its effects on academic success, reviewing research on how students spend their time, describing relationships between allocated, engaged, and productive time and exploring psychological perspectives related to time and curriculum. Curricular and instructional modifications to increase productive time and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary School Students
Adelman, Nancy; Pringle, Beverly – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Drawing on 14 case studies, this article examines reforms and innovative strategies affecting quantity and quality of time usage, and the potential of nonschool educators to complement and expand youngsters' learning opportunities. Many successful programs offer students less classroom time. Some residential programs for dropouts and poor minority…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Dropout Programs, Educational Innovation, Educational Opportunities
Blackadar, Ann Riley; Nachtigal, Paul – 1986
One of four programs funded nationally to test the notion that increased efficiency in the use of student and teacher time would result in higher student achievement, the Cotopaxi/Westcliffe Project was unique in that the two Colorado districts involved were small, rural, and operated on a four-day school week. The 4-year intervention consisted of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
