The goal of this qualitative flexible design research study was to discover if North Dakota should revise North Dakota PK-12 school calendar requirements for the academic and social-emotional development of students. Innovative reforms that might be beneficial in revising the North Dakota school calendar were researched. A literature review was…

Within the context of this paper, a balanced, or year-round, school year calendar is not one that necessarily increases either the length or number of school days. It is one that provides for "more continuous learning" by dividing up the traditional summer break into shorter intersessions during the year. It might seem to be a…

For administrators, teachers, students and their families in some districts, summer isn't what it used to be. Trying to stem a "summer slide" of learning loss by students and also to avoid having to build more schools to cope with overcrowding, districts are operating on year-round schedules that shorten the traditional summer vacation…

The National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL), an organization dedicated to redesigning and expanding school time to improve opportunities and outcomes for high-poverty students, has again teamed up with the Education Commission of the States (ECS), whose mission it is to foster the exchange of ideas on education issues among the states, to…

The impact of class time lengths on student achievement is a complex issue with multiple extraneous factors and without definitive answers. A major theme across many of the studies reviewed is that the amount of instructional time is not so important as how that time is spent. Key points include: (1) The commonly held conception that students in…

State legislators should seriously consider the economies and efficiencies inherent in the extended school year. (LR)

California's experiences with year-round schools at the higher education level. (LR)

Summarizes existing State laws governing the school year and State activities in support of the extended school year. (Author/LR)

Position paper adopted at the 1970 national seminar on year-round education. (LR)

This document presents a three-step model for providing teachers with basic information on year-round or extended school plans. As a first step, descriptions of basic plans are given. The four used in this paper are Staggered Quarter for All, Full 48-week School Year for All, Voluntary Summer Program, and A Summer Program for Professional…

This document represents a compilation of the bibliographic references of all documents that had been collected by the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Education Center (SWREC) prior to March 1, 1972. The bibliography has been organized into the major chronological segments: Before 1950, 1950-1959, 1960-1964, 1965-1969, 1970, and 1971. Within each…

Describes four school districts that operate year-round schools: Socorro Independent School District, Texas; Valley View School District, Romeoville, Illinois; Murrieta Valley Unified School near San Diego, California; and Rock Island-Milan School District in northwestern Illinois. Briefly describes three tracks of year-round education:…

General discussion of year-round schools and how they effect space savings, and affect construction costs, curriculum design, students, and teachers. (LR)

Describes Atlanta's year-round schools. (LR)

Describes the year-round school program in Utica, Michigan, and argues for State support of year-round schools. (LR)