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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regardless of summer brain drain, the one thing that is true is that national test dates remain the same- so AP and SAT scores will decrease because there will be fewer days to prep and fewer breaks to "settle" the brains for learning. MD used to lead the area with earlier start dates and it will reflect in these test scores- so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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Kids take the ACT and SAT at various times throughout the year. I doubt we'll see much difference.

The AP exam issue is an interesting one. If there weren't compression on the back end, I could see your point. But by setting both a start and end date, I think we'll actually see that the kids are in school approximately the same by the exam dates. Maybe with a shift of a couple of days one way or the other.

AP exams happen in May. Since the kids still have to be in school the same number of days as before, those days just have to be collapsed. Fewer short weeks, shorter spring break, all of that compensates for the week later kids start. If AP exams were a driving concern, we'd start school the beginning of August.[/quote]

I would love to know if jurisdictions that start the school year earlier have better AP test score results. [b]Mos mid-west schools are starting next week. [b]I wonder if those kids on the average do better for nAPs?[/quote]
Are they?
I’m from Wisconsin and state law is that school cannot start until September 1st (depending on how Labor Day falls at could be a bit later than that, but school never starts in August). My siblings’ children in the Twin Cities (three different school districts) aren’t starting until September 4th either.[/quote]

Yeah - i don't think "most" midwestern schools are starting next week.   I think most of the country is after Labor Day (including, for example, Chicago public schools).  The South/Southwest sometimes starts before Labor Day.  [/quote]

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