This is where you will be posting additional topic specific sites that may help other students in their pursuit of information. Please include a 1x5 blurb of your post (source, credibility, content, etc.).
This website is quite useful in many aspects. There are many statistics on the balanced calendar. Also, there are averages on money situations concerning the administration and tax payers. Also, this site gives basic information for the balanced calendar. Thanks to this website, you many finds statistics and currency information.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/summer.htm This website will help people who are trying to find out about students summer learning loss. This webiste has many creditable authors. In the article it tells about how students test scores and grades are higher with a balanced calender. The article tells that the subject with the most loss is math. This article tells mainly about the loss of knowledge that students face over the summer.
This website gives many inside details and useful facts about year round schooling. There are many things about the balanced calender that could be either good or bad, and this website could give information to tudents, adults, and anyone in general looking to learn more about it. Just about anyone could benefit greatly from looking at this site and rading wht it's about. Not only kids going to be transitioning to this calender, but also kids who are going to stay on the regular one. This could benefit just aout everyone even if they're not going to be diretly effected by it.
http://www.summerlearning.org/?page=know_the_facts This website could be very useful to people who are trying to find out why kids lose so much knowledge over the summer. For example, it shows how the students' test scores are lower after summer vacation. Also, most students lose about two grade levels of math efficiency over the summer months. Students also lose two months of reading achievements. In conclusion. this website is helpful for finding out why the students lose knowledge over their summer break.
This website was very useful. It is about how others schools have adapted to the balanced calendar. It explains many ways to prepare for the change as well. It also lists a few pros and cons of switching to the balanced calendar. This website was very helpful and furthering my knowledge about the topic.
This website contains a picture compairing the balanced and traditional school calendars. This website can help all people understand the new calendar being questioned. Mainly this would bring help to students and parents to see how their lives outside of school will be affected. The website also contains information and details about each calendar.
This is a site regarding summer learning loss, and why parents and educators are for it. This would be helpful to those who have included learning loss as a potential reason to be pro-balanced calendar. It includes an explanation for the formation of the standard calendar. It gives additional reasons that adults have voiced, concerning the issues with both calendars. This site is both credible, and informative.
This website can be useful for trying to find out the goals of a balanced calendar. This website is credible because it was made by a school district to show what they wish to accomplish through year-round schooling. Some of the goals the school district wishes to accomplish are to reduce learning loss and absenteeism. This source also gives different variations of a balanced calendar. This website can be mainly used for trying to find some of the goals that year-tound schooling tries to accomplish.
http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/balanced_calendar_facts.htm This website is helpful because it explains how the balanced calendar would work, and it lists benefits of the balanced calendar. For example, it shows several different examples of benefits that convince the reader that the balanced calendar is a pro. The site also has a few pie charts. These pie charts compare the calendar we have now to the proposed balanced calendar.
This website will help people understand the scheduling part of year round schooling. The webpage talks about yeor round school verses traditional school. Also, the page talks about the struggle students have with summer and sports schedules. The page tells the person why you should switch to year round schooling.
This website has many different graphs and downloads that help with the understanding of year round schooling. The six questions are questions that need answered. The answers are good answers too. This website has more than just questions that need answered. I recommend this page to anyone who needs further understanding of the balanced calendar.
This website is very beneficial to a person whom is searching for information on lack of acedemic success for schools on a balanced calender. The site had an article with chapters all applying to the balanced calender. There is an abundance of statistics and facts on acedemic sucess and how it has not improved. This article does not pick sides, but it has information neccesary to prove that a balanced calender is wrong. The website is very effective in convincing a person to be against the balanced calender.
This website is a great scource if you want to see different opinions on the balanced calanders. It lets people send in their opinion for or against the vote. The scource seems fairly credible because it is a ".org" scource. My project will be from a students stand point for the calander to other studenets to convince them it is a marvelous idea. The content gives the opinion of students for it and ideas of why the schedule is a good idea.
This website would be very beneficial to someone who wants to learn more about a balanced calendar.It is credible because it is a school website. The website states positive and negative aspects of a balanced calendar.This website also explains the way a balanced calendar is set up compared to a normal school calendar. To learn more about a balanced calendar, this would be a great site.
This site is a very helpful site because it gives different opinions and it gives different information. This information sounds reliable because its parents and children talking about how they feel. This site is telling you facts and how children might be doing things that help them. Parents are not fond of the idea because they will have to find people to babysit their kids while they are at work. This site would be recommended on anyone who need additional information about all year schooling.
This is a credible source for finding information about summer learning loss linking to lower test scores. There are interviews of credible people. The writer of the article is a credible author. It tells why the Superintendent wants to switch to the balanced calendar. This source is useful for finding crebile information on summer learning loss.
This site is credible and helpful due to the fact that is a school board website. There are many common questions that are answered with straightforward facts about the balanced calendar. Answers are simple enough for students to understand and further investigate. The article specifies many different viewpoints about the subject; such as that for different employees and students. The credible source is direct and reliable.
This site is very useful and imformational. This website provides explanation of what a balanced calendar is. It displays examples of schools that run on a balanced calendar. This site provides an explanation as to what year-round school really is. I reccommend this page to anyone who needs further explanation of how a balanced calendar runs.
According to this site,there is a valid argument for each side, pro and con. However, the administration is able to take a valid turn for the pro side in a non-bias way. The government has provided this site to the community to take a look at the perspectives of balanced calendar education. The whole community is able to benefit from these statistics and learn more about the year-round calendar. Even though there is a negative perspective involved, the pro side of the calendar idea is more effective.
This website is from schools in Canada that are using the balanced calendar. The site shows the pros and cons for the students when it comes to using this type of calendar. It lists the pros and cons and also answers questions that you might have. When wanting to see both sides of the balanced calendar from the pros and cons of students who expierence this. I recommend this page if you want a first person perpective on the balanced calendar.
The website hyperlinked above has commonly asked questions with answers, about the idea of a balanced calendar. The questions on this website are primarily focused and based on parents within a community. The answers to the questions are not just one sentence answers, they are big paragraphs with insightful information based on research that website has done. I recomend the website above, because of the reasons above, but also due to it is a credible sorce. Any source like the source hyperlinked above with a .org is a great source to use.
This website shows the debate on year round schooling and people's comments and thoughts on the subject. The site also shows the percentage of visiters to the site who voted and said yes to year round schooling and those who said no. The site is funded by the government and also is unbiased. You also have the option of replying to a specific comment or liking the comment. This site enables someone who is wishing to research the subject by showing views on both sides of the arguement.
This site has many different opinions on how the balanced calendar worked in past situations. The site includes many advantages on the educational side of year round schooling. It also tells about how the government has significantly increased the spending on educational programs throughout all the schools who participate in the balanced calendar. The site has backed up all their findings wih different statstics they have found. so, this sit is a very good place to visit when writing a research paper about year round schooling!
This website is made specifically for the pros of a balanced calendar. It includes a variety of info that can benifit a many of the stakeholders. The website itself is a .gov, meaning it is a more reliable source. Many different inputs can also be found, such as principals, parents, and the ways Year-Round Schooling effects students. If someone is for the balanced calendar, this website would be a great resource.
This website would be very informational to a student trying to show how they are against the balanced calendar to a school board. It shows the pros of both a traditional and balanced, and also shows data that has been collected. Also, the diffrent studies that have been done and the affects that have been produced from year round schooling. It also tells the reason and purposes for this study to be done and why it is important. This website is very informational and will help in studies.
This website could be very beneficial when trying to write a research paper on year round schooling. It discusses many different topics and answers a lot of questions. The website also states that they are credible and their information is true. The site explains why year round schooling would be important. The website also discusses how learning loss over a long summer break could be prevented. All in all, this website answers common questions to year round schooling and could be very beneficial to students.
This website is very helpful when it comes to writing a research paper on year round schooling. It has a chart showing the different schedule options for year round schooling. There is also a chart showing the advantages and disadvantages of each scheduling option. It also has a chart showing the costs of staff for the amount of students enrolled. This website is a good source for someone who is wanting to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of year round schooling.
This website has a lot of helpful, basic information about balanced calendars. It covers many different topics of year round schooling. There is different information about attendence and scores. This website also talks a lot about how the system is set up and why it has positive and negative effects with it. This website is a good source written by knowledgable people with credible information.
This is a Year-Round Education Program Guide. The website provides an introduction of year round schooling.This website is applicable to reasearchers wishing to view the advantanges and disadvantages of year round school. The website includes data on the number of vacation days, learning days, and the costs. The website also has a thorough list of the pros and cons of year round schooling.
This is an opinion article wriiten a member of the West Virginia Board of Educaion. He talks about why traditional school systems were put into place. He also explains how a year round school calander does not mean you go every day of the year, but rather have more breaks throughout the year in exchange for a shorter break. Another point he makes is he speaks of the many benefits of this typeof school system such as reducing teacer burnout, drop out rates, discipline problems, and student stress. This website would be beneficial to someone wanting to research an administrators point of view on beginning a year round school system.
This website is about a school in Indianapolis that is considering switching to the balanced calendar as well. It has a short list of pros and cons. The article also talks about the reality of the balanced calendar. It also explains exactly how the balanced calendar would work. Though the article is directed at a different school, all of the information is still useful.
http://udini.proquest.com/view/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-goid:304742329 This site is extremely useful by give information on both sides of the balance calendar. This site shows you the problem and benifits with the balanced calendar. It shows the pros and cons of both sides and easy to read. It shows a lot of the information we will need to complete the research paper.
This is a helpful site because it is a poll and shows the views of students, teachers, administration, and parents on almost every aspect of a school calendar, from the education to extracurricular activity scheduling to which calendar would be a best fit for schools. The poll asked about many different types of calendars preferred, and also about how people felt about how the scheduling changes would affect things such as work, vacation, and child care. People gave opinions on the length of vacations and start and end dates for the school year to help get an idea about which type of calendar would be the best for everyone involved in the school community. The poll was helpful because the results were direct views of every stakeholder involved and was not filtered or biased, so it gave a clear reading on where everyone stood on the matter. It includes a lot of good opinions and arguments, and also has several proposals for different variations of a balanced calendar and shows what people think about them, which will be very helpful whilst doing the research project.
This website is very useful. It shows pie charts to describe the way the balanced calendar is similar to the original school calendar. The pie charts show that both types of calendars use the same amount of educational days, just broken up into different ways. The balanced calendar just has educational days more spaced through out the year instead of all at once to assure remembrance of the contents of the school year. With the traditional calendar, students get one large break during the summer, but with the balanced calendar they have their break spred throughout the school year.
This website is a helpful tool to use for researching. This site includes graphs,videos, and statistics explaining the lons trem effects os summer learning loss. Summer learning loss is what happens to students over the summer. They forget half of the information they learned in the previous year. Teachers have to spend their time reteaching, or reviewing, the information. This website is also a certified site. Some random person didn't make it.
http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SWV0157-0-273&artno=0000022743&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Year%2Dround%20schools&title=Time%20and%20Learning&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N#citation This article is very helpful. There are extra resources at the bottom of the page, including professional studies, which show the credibility of the article. It discusses pros and cons of changing the school schedule, and includes various viewpoints. According to this article, year-round school solves summer learning loss and allows schools to accommodate more students. Lastly, the article also states that a majority of parents (especially those with school-age children) are against year-round school.
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ReplyDeleteThis website is quite useful in many aspects. There are many statistics on the balanced calendar. Also, there are averages on money situations concerning the administration and tax payers. Also, this site gives basic information for the balanced calendar. Thanks to this website, you many finds statistics and currency information.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/summer.htm
ReplyDeleteThis website will help people who are trying to find out about students summer learning loss. This webiste has many creditable authors. In the article it tells about how students test scores and grades are higher with a balanced calender. The article tells that the subject with the most loss is math. This article tells mainly about the loss of knowledge that students face over the summer.
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ReplyDeleteThis website gives many inside details and useful facts about year round schooling. There are many things about the balanced calender that could be either good or bad, and this website could give information to tudents, adults, and anyone in general looking to learn more about it. Just about anyone could benefit greatly from looking at this site and rading wht it's about. Not only kids going to be transitioning to this calender, but also kids who are going to stay on the regular one. This could benefit just aout everyone even if they're not going to be diretly effected by it.
http://www.summerlearning.org/?page=know_the_facts
ReplyDeleteThis website could be very useful to people who are trying to find out why kids lose so much knowledge over the summer. For example, it shows how the students' test scores are lower after summer vacation. Also, most students lose about two grade levels of math efficiency over the summer months. Students also lose two months of reading achievements. In conclusion. this website is helpful for finding out why the students lose knowledge over their summer break.
http://www.indyschild.com/Articles-Columns-i-2013-04-01-257515.114134-p17798.112112-Adjusting-to-a-Balanced-Calendar.html
ReplyDeleteThis website was very useful. It is about how others schools have adapted to the balanced calendar. It explains many ways to prepare for the change as well. It also lists a few pros and cons of switching to the balanced calendar. This website was very helpful and furthering my knowledge about the topic.
http://www.nayre.org/calendar_comparison.htm
ReplyDeleteThis website contains a picture compairing the balanced and traditional school calendars. This website can help all people understand the new calendar being questioned. Mainly this would bring help to students and parents to see how their lives outside of school will be affected. The website also contains information and details about each calendar.
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/summer.htm
ReplyDeleteThis is a site regarding summer learning loss, and why parents and educators are for it. This would be helpful to those who have included learning loss as a potential reason to be pro-balanced calendar. It includes an explanation for the formation of the standard calendar. It gives additional reasons that adults have voiced, concerning the issues with both calendars. This site is both credible, and informative.
http://www.mnps.org/Page82143.aspx
ReplyDeleteThis website can be useful for trying to find out the goals of a balanced calendar. This website is credible because it was made by a school district to show what they wish to accomplish through year-round schooling. Some of the goals the school district wishes to accomplish are to reduce learning loss and absenteeism. This source also gives different variations of a balanced calendar. This website can be mainly used for trying to find some of the goals that year-tound schooling tries to accomplish.
http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/balanced_calendar_facts.htm
ReplyDeleteThis website is helpful because it explains how the balanced calendar would work, and it lists benefits of the balanced calendar. For example, it shows several different examples of benefits that convince the reader that the balanced calendar is a pro. The site also has a few pie charts. These pie charts compare the calendar we have now to the proposed balanced calendar.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/july-dec01/year-round.html
ReplyDeleteThis website will help people understand the scheduling part of year round schooling. The webpage talks about yeor round school verses traditional school. Also, the page talks about the struggle students have with summer and sports schedules. The page tells the person why you should switch to year round schooling.
http://www.nayre.org/Six%20Questions.html
ReplyDeleteThis website has many different graphs and downloads that help with the understanding of year round schooling. The six questions are questions that need answered. The answers are good answers too. This website has more than just questions that need answered. I recommend this page to anyone who needs further understanding of the balanced calendar.
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ReplyDeleteThis website is very beneficial to a person whom is searching for information on lack of acedemic success for schools on a balanced calender. The site had an article with chapters all applying to the balanced calender. There is an abundance of statistics and facts on acedemic sucess and how it has not improved. This article does not pick sides, but it has information neccesary to prove that a balanced calender is wrong. The website is very effective in convincing a person to be against the balanced calender.
http://www.debate.org/opinions/are-year-round-schools-a-good-idea-that-should-be-adopted-by-private-and-public-schools
ReplyDeleteThis website is a great scource if you want to see different opinions on the balanced calanders. It lets people send in their opinion for or against the vote. The scource seems fairly credible because it is a ".org" scource. My project will be from a students stand point for the calander to other studenets to convince them it is a marvelous idea. The content gives the opinion of students for it and ideas of why the schedule is a good idea.
http://www.washoe.k12.nv.us/docs/public-policy-accountability-assessment/Why_Move_to_the_Balanced_Calendar.pdf
ReplyDeleteThis website would be very beneficial to someone who wants to learn more about a balanced calendar.It is credible because it is a school website. The website states positive and negative aspects of a balanced calendar.This website also explains the way a balanced calendar is set up compared to a normal school calendar. To learn more about a balanced calendar, this would be a great site.
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/choosing-schools-programs/pros-and-cons-year-round-schools
ReplyDeleteThis site is a very helpful site because it gives different opinions and it gives different information. This information sounds reliable because its parents and children talking about how they feel. This site is telling you facts and how children might be doing things that help them. Parents are not fond of the idea because they will have to find people to babysit their kids while they are at work. This site would be recommended on anyone who need additional information about all year schooling.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a credible source for finding information about summer learning loss linking to lower test scores. There are interviews of credible people. The writer of the article is a credible author. It tells why the Superintendent wants to switch to the balanced calendar. This source is useful for finding crebile information on summer learning loss.
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ReplyDeleteThis site is credible and helpful due to the fact that is a school board website. There are many common questions that are answered with straightforward facts about the balanced calendar. Answers are simple enough for students to understand and further investigate. The article specifies many different viewpoints about the subject; such as that for different employees and students. The credible source is direct and reliable.
https://dsweb.bcsta.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-64024/Balanced_Calendar_14_2010.pdf
ReplyDeleteThis site is very useful and imformational. This website provides explanation of what a balanced calendar is. It displays examples of schools that run on a balanced calendar. This site provides an explanation as to what year-round school really is. I reccommend this page to anyone who needs further explanation of how a balanced calendar runs.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/yr/guide.asp
ReplyDeleteAccording to this site,there is a valid argument for each side, pro and con. However, the administration is able to take a valid turn for the pro side in a non-bias way. The government has provided this site to the community to take a look at the perspectives of balanced calendar education. The whole community is able to benefit from these statistics and learn more about the year-round calendar. Even though there is a negative perspective involved, the pro side of the calendar idea is more effective.
https://dsweb.bcsta.org/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-64024/Balanced_Calendar_14_2010.pdf
ReplyDeleteThis website is from schools in Canada that are using the balanced calendar. The site shows the pros and cons for the students when it comes to using this type of calendar. It lists the pros and cons and also answers questions that you might have. When wanting to see both sides of the balanced calendar from the pros and cons of students who expierence this. I recommend this page if you want a first person perpective on the balanced calendar.
http://www.nayre.org/Six%20Questions.html
ReplyDeleteThe website hyperlinked above has commonly asked questions with answers, about the idea of a balanced calendar. The questions on this website are primarily focused and based on parents within a community. The answers to the questions are not just one sentence answers, they are big paragraphs with insightful information based on research that website has done. I recomend the website above, because of the reasons above, but also due to it is a credible sorce. Any source like the source hyperlinked above with a .org is a great source to use.
http://www.debate.org/opinions/are-year-round-schools-a-good-idea-that-should-be-adopted-by-private-and-public-schools
ReplyDeleteThis website shows the debate on year round schooling and people's comments and thoughts on the subject. The site also shows the percentage of visiters to the site who voted and said yes to year round schooling and those who said no. The site is funded by the government and also is unbiased. You also have the option of replying to a specific comment or liking the comment. This site enables someone who is wishing to research the subject by showing views on both sides of the arguement.
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ReplyDeleteThis site has many different opinions on how the balanced calendar worked in past situations. The site includes many advantages on the educational side of year round schooling. It also tells about how the government has significantly increased the spending on educational programs throughout all the schools who participate in the balanced calendar. The site has backed up all their findings wih different statstics they have found. so, this sit is a very good place to visit when writing a research paper about year round schooling!
http://www.eduguide.org/library/viewarticle/1393
ReplyDeleteThis website is made specifically for the pros of a balanced calendar. It includes a variety of info that can benifit a many of the stakeholders. The website itself is a .gov, meaning it is a more reliable source. Many different inputs can also be found, such as principals, parents, and the ways Year-Round Schooling effects students. If someone is for the balanced calendar, this website would be a great resource.
https://www.nhaschools.com/schools/windemerepark/SiteCollectionDocuments/Balanced%20Calendar%20Study.pdf
ReplyDeleteThis website would be very informational to a student trying to show how they are against the balanced calendar to a school board. It shows the pros of both a traditional and balanced, and also shows data that has been collected. Also, the diffrent studies that have been done and the affects that have been produced from year round schooling. It also tells the reason and purposes for this study to be done and why it is important. This website is very informational and will help in studies.
http://www.nayre.org/Six%20Questions.html
ReplyDeleteThis website could be very beneficial when trying to write a research paper on year round schooling. It discusses many different topics and answers a lot of questions. The website also states that they are credible and their information is true. The site explains why year round schooling would be important. The website also discusses how learning loss over a long summer break could be prevented. All in all, this website answers common questions to year round schooling and could be very beneficial to students.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/yr/guide.asp
ReplyDeleteThis website is very helpful when it comes to writing a research paper on year round schooling. It has a chart showing the different schedule options for year round schooling. There is also a chart showing the advantages and disadvantages of each scheduling option. It also has a chart showing the costs of staff for the amount of students enrolled. This website is a good source for someone who is wanting to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of year round schooling.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/year-round-schooling/
ReplyDeleteThis website has a lot of helpful, basic information about balanced calendars. It covers many different topics of year round schooling. There is different information about attendence and scores. This website also talks a lot about how the system is set up and why it has positive and negative effects with it. This website is a good source written by knowledgable people with credible information.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/yr/guide.asp
ReplyDeleteThis is a Year-Round Education Program Guide. The website provides an introduction of year round schooling.This website is applicable to reasearchers wishing to view the advantanges and disadvantages of year round school. The website includes data on the number of vacation days, learning days, and the costs. The website also has a thorough list of the pros and cons of year round schooling.
http://wvde.state.wv.us/news/114
ReplyDeleteThis is an opinion article wriiten a member of the West Virginia Board of Educaion. He talks about why traditional school systems were put into place. He also explains how a year round school calander does not mean you go every day of the year, but rather have more breaks throughout the year in exchange for a shorter break. Another point he makes is he speaks of the many benefits of this typeof school system such as reducing teacer burnout, drop out rates, discipline problems, and student stress. This website would be beneficial to someone wanting to research an administrators point of view on beginning a year round school system.
http://www.examiner.com/article/indianapolis-public-schools-the-pros-and-cons-of-year-round-school
ReplyDeleteThis website is about a school in Indianapolis that is considering switching to the balanced calendar as well. It has a short list of pros and cons. The article also talks about the reality of the balanced calendar. It also explains exactly how the balanced calendar would work. Though the article is directed at a different school, all of the information is still useful.
http://udini.proquest.com/view/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-goid:304742329
ReplyDeleteThis site is extremely useful by give information on both sides of the balance calendar. This site shows you the problem and benifits with the balanced calendar. It shows the pros and cons of both sides and easy to read. It shows a lot of the information we will need to complete the research paper.
http://franklinschools.org/cms/lib2/IN01001624/Centricity/Domain/525/CALENDARSURVEYRESULTS.pdf
ReplyDeleteThis is a helpful site because it is a poll and shows the views of students, teachers, administration, and parents on almost every aspect of a school calendar, from the education to extracurricular activity scheduling to which calendar would be a best fit for schools. The poll asked about many different types of calendars preferred, and also about how people felt about how the scheduling changes would affect things such as work, vacation, and child care. People gave opinions on the length of vacations and start and end dates for the school year to help get an idea about which type of calendar would be the best for everyone involved in the school community. The poll was helpful because the results were direct views of every stakeholder involved and was not filtered or biased, so it gave a clear reading on where everyone stood on the matter. It includes a lot of good opinions and arguments, and also has several proposals for different variations of a balanced calendar and shows what people think about them, which will be very helpful whilst doing the research project.
http://www.nayre.org/calendar_comparison.htm
ReplyDeleteThis website is very useful. It shows pie charts to describe the way the balanced calendar is similar to the original school calendar. The pie charts show that both types of calendars use the same amount of educational days, just broken up into different ways. The balanced calendar just has educational days more spaced through out the year instead of all at once to assure remembrance of the contents of the school year. With the traditional calendar, students get one large break during the summer, but with the balanced calendar they have their break spred throughout the school year.
http://partnerforchildren.org/what-we-do/out-of-school-time-initiatives/summer-programs
ReplyDeleteThis website is a helpful tool to use for researching. This site includes graphs,videos, and statistics explaining the lons trem effects os summer learning loss. Summer learning loss is what happens to students over the summer. They forget half of the information they learned in the previous year. Teachers have to spend their time reteaching, or reviewing, the information. This website is also a certified site. Some random person didn't make it.
http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SWV0157-0-273&artno=0000022743&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=Year%2Dround%20schools&title=Time%20and%20Learning&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=N&lnk=N&ic=N#citation
ReplyDeleteThis article is very helpful. There are extra resources at the bottom of the page, including professional studies, which show the credibility of the article. It discusses pros and cons of changing the school schedule, and includes various viewpoints. According to this article, year-round school solves summer learning loss and allows schools to accommodate more students. Lastly, the article also states that a majority of parents (especially those with school-age children) are against year-round school.