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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is thinking about the low income and ESL students who need consistent support to make progress against their educational goals. 
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You think you are, but have no research and the research that is out there says it doesn’t matter WHEN, but it does matter how many hours. [/quote]

Show us that research. There is no research that says hours, no matter how incinsistently applied, is the same as a consistent schedule. You're misinterpreting research on alternative schedules.[/quote]

I already did in at least of these threads.  The main research said 180 days is 180 days and the TIME in school matters over placement of the days. 
All other research about extending the school year and adding breaks is mixed.  Feel free to find the link I already posted in an easy to watch PBS segment or do more research yourself and post that. [/quote]
I believe the study was comparing a traditional 9-10 month calendar with a year round calendar. I don’t believe any study has been performed where 180 days were randomly selected to hold school over the course of a year to prove time in school mattered over placement of days. Traditional and full year calendars still have consistent 4-5 day school weeks. It’s the distribution of longer breaks that changes.  [/quote]

The researcher who did the study went i. PBS news hour and said it didn’t matter how you get the 180 days, it was the number of hours that matters.

Because of emergencies days and snow days it would be hard to get a study that can accurately show much more than that with a large enough sample size to make a correlation.[/quote]

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