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States seek ways to measure quality instructional time
- 08-12-2011
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Blog by Sarah D. Sparks/Education Week
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made "extended learning time" a political catch-phrase, listing it as a top turnaround strategy across federal programs from Race to the Top to the School Improvement Fund. "We know 180 six-and-a-half-hour days just aren't enough," Kelly Stuart of the Education Department's Doing What Works site told state directors of federal Title I poverty education programs at their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this week. State officials and learning time experts at the meeting noted that more states and districts are starting to explore instructional time in the second year of implementing school improvement grants. Yet it's not clear whether or how that will equate to more meaningful learning time. In studying school improvement efforts across the country, Ben Lummis of the National Center on Time and Learning said it generally takes an increase of 300 hours of additional time each year to make a real difference for students. (more...)
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