Balancing the School Calendar

Perspectives from the Public and Stakeholders
Herausgeber: Ballinger, Charles; Kneese, Carolyn

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Produktbeschreibung

Balancing the School Calendar is a compilation of perspectives and research reports from those who have experienced the urgent necessity of reorganizing time to effectuate better learning situations for students. Chapter authors have implemented, studied, or contemplated school calendar change and the results of the change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9781578868797
• ISBN-10: 1578868793
• Artikelnr.: 25892681

Autorenporträt

Edited by Carolyn Kneese and Charles Ballinger - Contributions by Frederick M. Hess; Lloyd H. Elliott; William L. Bainbridge; Michael Fisher; Keither G. Baker; Stephen L. Evans; Dominic M. Calabro; Carolyn M. Shields; Steven Lynn Oberg; Shelly Gismondi Ha

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Excerpts from the Media and Public
Perceptions Chapter 3 Summer Vacation of Our Discontent Chapter 4
Restructuring American Experiment Chapter 5 U.S. Students Need Longer
School Year Chapter 6 Poll Says Floridians Willing to Accept Year-Round
Schools Part 7 Perspectives from Stakeholders Chapter 8 Balanced Calendar
Schools: A Case for Combining Structural Change and Transformative
Leadership Chapter 9 The Modified Calendar: Benefits for Teachers Chapter
10 Report on School and Community Attitudes to Modified School Calendars
Chapter 11 Experiencing School Year-Round: An Administrator's Perspective
Part 12 Reports of the Practice and the Various Models (Practitioner
Experiences in Single-Track, Multi-Track, All-Year Learning, Extended-Year,
and the Five-Term Models) Chapter 13 Effects of Year-Round Education Upon
Performance Indicators Chapter 14 Multi-Tracking in School Calendar Reform
Chapter 15 Grounding Calendar Change: A Call for Re-Imagining Continuous
Learning Chapter 16 Beyond Mere Balancing of the Calendar: A Comprehensive
Time Reform Model Chapter 17 An English Perspective on Calendar Reform
through an Examination of School's Innovatory Practices