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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]longer year would be great--let's join the rest of the industrialized world with a non-agricultural school year and hopefully higher PISA scores.[/quote]

Having been educated in Europe, let me say that the main difference is not year length per se, but the breadth and depth of the curriculum. Every year (that I recall) we had 6 or more subjects, including things like history or science or religion/ ethics. If DCPS is planning to have a similarly rigorous and challenging curriculum, THEN we may catch up with the rest of the industrialized world.

Has anyone seen any specific proposal about what DCPS would do with 10-20 extra days a year?[/quote]

I haven't. Kaya Henderson has been talking about it publicly for a few years. Some selected news clips:

http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/education/2015/10/28/dc-schools-chancellor-talks-wusa9/74777272/
http://wamu.org/news/14/08/26/dc_extends_the_day_at_25_schools_hoping_that_more_time_means_better_scores[/quote]

Thanks.

No real "beef" there, other than there was a pilot last year at 20 or so of the "not very good" DCPS schools.[/quote] Actually it was forced upon the 40/40 schools. These are the bottom 40 schools. Since we are talking statistics and bragging about the 5 years of growth in DCPS I am wondering why there are still 40 schools at the bottom of the pile? Shouldn't the number of failing schools been reduced by now?[/quote]

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