Multi-Track Year-Round Schooling as Cost Saving Reform: Not Just a Matter of Time

Jennifer Graves, Steven McMullen and Katy Rouse

Education Finance and Policy, 2013, vol. 8, issue 3, 300-315

Abstract: In the face of school crowding and fears about inequality-inducing summer learning loss, many schools have started to adopt multi-track year-round school calendars, which keep the same number of school days, but spread them more evenly across the calendar year. This change allows schools to support a larger student population by rotating which students are on break at any point in time. While year-round schooling can save money, the impact on academic achievement is uncertain and only recently have large-scale studies become available for policy makers. This brief examines research on the effects of multi-track year-round schooling, focusing on two rigorously executed case studies. This research gives little support for claims that year-round schooling will boost student achievement. Except as a remedy for highly over-crowded schools, year-round schooling seems to have little impact on achievement, and has even been shown to decrease achievement, especially among the most high-risk student populations. © 2013 Association for Education Finance and Policy

Keywords: year-round schooling; multi-track schooling; student achievement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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