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Data from the federal Schools and Stafing Survey (SASS), the only nationally representative data source available for identifying variations in time across schools, are used to measure and document in-school time among the nation’s traditional pub-lic, private and charter schools.
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Policymakers have renewed calls for expanding instructional time in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We establish a set of empirical facts about time in school, synthesize the literature on the causal effects of instructional time, and conduct a case study of time use in an urban district.
school time in America, the third since the original in 2011. By focusing on some of the key actions that have taken place at the federal, state, and local levels since 2013, we seek to advance the national conversation about how the nation’s schools can harness the power of time to realize a vision of high-quality education for all.
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Using a minimum hour rather than day requirement can give states more flexibility for creative uses of time, such as the four-day school week. Generally, most states require between 900 and 1,080 hours per year for all grades, and many states require the same hours per year for all or nearly all grades.
Fifteen more minutes of school a day at a school site (or about an additional week of classes over an academic year) relates to an increase in average overall academic achievement of about 1%, and about a 1.5% increase in average achievement for disadvantaged students.
- Caitlin Steele
In “Why School Days Should Be Shorter: A Detailed Analysis,” we’ve explored the diverse approaches to school day lengths across the U.S., examined global perspectives, weighed the benefits, and addressed challenges.
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In public schools, a typical full week of school was 33.0 hours long for third-graders and 33.8 hours long for eighth-graders. In private schools, a typical full week of school was 33.1 hours long for third-graders and 33.5 hours long for eighth-graders.