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Effect of Shortening High-School Duration by One Year on Student ...

Abstract. In 2010, the government of Ghana shortened the duration of senior high school by one year. As a result of this policy, the 2009 ...

The impacts of shortening secondary school duration

Shortening secondary school does not affect the probability of a student enrolling in college. The effects of reforming secondary school duration on ...

Academic effects of shortened school weeks on student achievement

And for schools that moved from a four-day to a five-day week, a one-hour increase in weekly time in school led to a 0.018 standard deviation ...

LAHS Student Op Ed: The Benefits Of Shorter School Days

Leaving more time for after school activities gives students more time to sleep, leaving them energized and ready to learn the next day. Shorter ...

The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance ...

This solution was supposed to avoid that children in school during this time would graduate with having attended for a shorter period than what is required by ...

What is the impact of a four-day school week on student achievement?

I find that these school schedules have detrimental impacts on student achievement, with declines of between 0.044 and 0.053 standard deviations in math scores ...

The impacts of shortening secondary school duration

One likely explanation for the small gain from an extra year of schooling is that high school teachers direct more attention to lower-performing students,.

Shorter School Days | Benefits of Less Class Time - Tenney Tutors

As school days have gotten longer over the years, both students and teachers are under more pressure than ever before. For students, it is a ...

Are We Spending Too Many Years in School? Causal Evidence of ...

... Moreover, the extended period of pre-university education prior to NERP gave teachers more time to explain course materials to students with lower academic ...

Shorter School Days Increase Success - The Penndulum

Shortening the school day would allow for more time to focus on other important activities such as playing a sport, doing homework, extracurricular activities, ...

The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance ...

In this paper, I study the impact of a reform in the West-German school system in 1966-67 which dramatically changed the amount of instructional time for some ...

Does Shortening the School Week Impact Student Performance ...

These findings suggest there is little evidence that moving to a four-day week compromises student academic achievement. This research has policy relevance to ...

Compressing instruction time into fewer years of schooling and the ...

Both studies find a strong negative effect on student performance ranging between 17 to 120 percent of a standard deviation, with larger reductions in student ...

Shortening The School Year Spreads - Peaceful Playgrounds

“Students will probably spend less time learning about art and music. Even P.E. will take a hit.” Art, music and physical education have already ...

The impacts of shortening secondary school duration - ResearchGate

However, shortening the duration of secondary school has some adverse effects on academic achievement in secondary school, on the choice of a college education, ...

Does Shortening the School Week Impact Student Performance ...

First, the shortened school week gives parents the opportunity to schedule medical and other necessary appointments on their school's day off ...

Research suggests the impact of four-day school weeks varies ...

Although adopting a four-day schedule had little to no impact on kids at rural schools, student performance fell considerably at schools in non- ...

The Shrinking School Week - Education Next

They suggest that briefly limiting students' time in school, in this case through a four-day school week, may result in a short-term negative ...

The impacts of shortening secondary school duration - IDEAS/RePEc

One way to lengthen working lives is to shorten the duration of secondary school, an option recently implemented in Canada and Germany. The empirical evidence ...

The Pros and Cons to Longer School Days | Walden University

While studies have found that longer instruction time can improve achievement, the correlation is not exact and depends on other factors, such as classroom ...