The Answer Sheet: school day
How about a 21-hour school day?
Educators are talking about extending the school day by a half hour or so. Just maybe, it is posited here, what we need is a 21-hour school day.
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09:00 AM ET, 01/22/2011 |
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Afterschool programs in funding jeopardy
Thousands of afterschool programs are in danger of losing their funding because of a proposal that would allow federal money now used to support these programs to instead pay for longer school days. That may sound like it makes sense, but it doesn't.
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01:24 PM ET, 10/21/2010 |
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