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Books on: year round schools

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Charter School Operations and Performance: Evidence from California

Book by Ron Zimmer, Richard Buddin, Derrick Chau, Glenn Daley, Brian Gill, Cassandra Guarino, Laura Hamilton, Cathy Krop, Dan McCaffrey, Melinda Sandler, Dominic Brewer; Rand, 2003

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Charter Schools--California--Evaluation

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...data from the 2001 02 school year. 2. Within grade...function of aggregate school characteristics...by the CDE to match schools for the API and used...and whether the school operates multitrack year-round educational programs...
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From the Campus: Perspectives on the School Reform Movement

Book by Sol Cohen, Lewis C. Solmon; Praeger Publishers, 1989

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Education--Aims And Objectives--United States, Public Schools--United States, Teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...is a 180-day work year, but the students...teachers who go from school to school to provide special...Providing slack time to school districts on a year-round schedule raises unique...problem year-round schools face is that while...
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School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators, and Improving Schools

Book by Joyce L. Epstein; Westview Press, 2001

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Community And School--United States, Home And School--United States, School Improvement Programs--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...change teachers every year, but little is known...to the fall of the school year. Regardless of the school organization or length of the school year, home is a year-round resource. More information...question: What do schools need to do to help...
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Family-School Links: How Do They Affect Educational Outcomes?

Book by Alan Booth, Judith F. Dunn; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996

Subjects:

Academic Achievement--United States, Family--United States, Home And School--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...change teachers every year, but little is known...to the fall of the school year. Regardless of the school organization or length of the school year, home is a year-round resource. More information...question: What do schools need to do to help...
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Changing Our Schools: Linking School Effectiveness and School Improvement

Book by Louise Stoll, Dean Fink; Open University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Educational Change, Effective Teaching, School Improvement Programs

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...time-conscious (p. 72). Schools have a definite time cycle...Why, for instance, do many schools close down for two months in...day, pupils are enrolling in school in Calgary. Year-round schools have been a fact of life in...

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Journal Articles on: year round schools

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Evaluating Year-Round Schools in Texas

Journal article by Cynthia Opheim, Kristine Hopkins Mohajer, Robert W. Read Jr.; Education, Vol. 116, 1995

Subjects:

Elementary school principals--Management, Year-round schools--Evaluation

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...a majority of year-round schools are elementary schools. Parents may...a traditional school. This may be...in overcrowded school districts such...traditional elementary schools that shared similar...characteristics with the year-round schools. All...
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Contrasting Experiences of White Students and Students of Color in a Year-round High School

Journal article by Stafford Hood, Donald J. Freeman; The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 69, 2000

Subjects:

African Americans, Educational evaluation, Secondary schools, Studies, Year round school

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...of Color in a Year-round High School by Stafford Hood , Donald...call for an alternative school calendar. Another reconfigures...reconfiguration of the school calendar can take as...growth in the number of year-round schools nationwide that would...Over the past 15 years there has been a mild...
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Year-Round School: The Best Thing since Sliced Bread

Journal article by Elaine Warrick-Harris; Childhood Education, Vol. 71, 1995

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Elementary schools--Management, North Carolina, School year--Evaluation, Schools

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...children. One way for schools to respond to todays...expectations is to implement Year-Round Education. Worthen...implications of the year-round program...research and three years experience with the year-round school, I heartily agree...
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Islamic Schools in America: Islam's Vehicle to the Future?

Journal article by Hussam S. Timani; Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 2006

Subjects:

Islamic schools--Influence, Islamic schools--Social aspects, Muslim children--Education, Muslim children--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...full-time Islamic school is the best option for...The number of Islamic schools across the U.S. has...drastically in the last five years. It is estimated currently...are 200-600 Islamic schools, with enrollment exceeding...students. (11) These schools provide education from kindergarten to high school. Their curricula focus...
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Public Financing of Religious Schools: James G. Blaine and Justice Clarence Thomas' 'Bigotry Thesis

Journal article by Kern Alexander; Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 2007

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Blaine, James G.--Social policy, Church schools--Government finance, Parochial schools--Government finance, Politicians--Social policy, Supreme Court justices--Social policy, Supreme court justices--Social policy, Thomas, Clarence--Social policy

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...rather than the Catholic Douay Bible. School boards in Cincinnati, Chicago, New...such religious exercises from public schools. (67) In 1875, President Grant...no public funding for their parochial schools; for the Protestants, he would deny them religious services in the public school classroom and provide them with no public funding of their religious schools. He said to the veterans: "Resolve...

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Magazine Articles on: year round schools

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Districts That School Year-Round: In a Handful of Systems, Every School Follows a Year-Long Calendar

Magazine article by Ann Mcglynn; School Administrator, Vol. 3, March 2002

Subjects:

Child development--Influence, Education--Methodology, School districts--Management, Year-round schools--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...track through the years proved challenging...to build the schools," Romero adds...Island-Milan School District in Illinois...will be a five-year trial period for districtwide year-round education in...northwestern Illinois school district. A...changed from schools qualifying to...vacation in 31 years as an educator...
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Year-Round Schools Can Stimulate Learning

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, August 2000

Subjects:

Smith, Lawrence--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Year round school--Management, Year-round schools--Management

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Year-Round Schools Can Stimulate Learning. Year-round schools are the...that begin the academic year in July and end in June...learned information. Every year, teachers have to go over the previous years basics to keep a class...sites are at elementary schools, mostly in states with...includes a four-day school week with a fifth day...
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Average Kids: Round Pegs in Round Holes

Magazine article by Allan S. Vann; School Administrator, Vol. 54, January 1997

Subjects:

Disabled students--Study and teaching, Gifted children--Study and teaching, School administrators--Management, Teachers of gifted children--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Average Kids: Round Pegs in Round Holes by...average children fill their round holes quite nicely. Too...left to just get by each year as they move through the...according to a study last year by the Economic Policy...when increasingly tight school budgets cannot provide...
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The Wheels Go Round: Is Walking to School Just a Nostalgia Trip?

Magazine article by Lisa Fernandez; The Next American City, 2004

Subjects:

Children & youth, School busing, Walking

Collections: Entire Library

...says, when the town split the school bus routes so that it took...funding for "Safe Routes to School." Eighteen states now fund...enhance pedestrian safety around schools. California has made the biggest...allotting $20 million a year since 1999 for a municipal...Grassrootsorganized "Walk / Bike to School Days" and art contests encouraged...
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Schools Become Year-round Community Centers

Magazine article; Parks & Recreation, Vol. 39, October 2004

Subjects:

Community centers, Design, Facilities planning, Schools

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Schools Become Year-round Community Centers...July issue of "School University" magazine, as many schools strive to return...for joint use, school officials should...National Symposium on School Design identified...designing better schools. : 1. Enhance...least every five years * Plan for rapid...

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Newspaper Articles on: year round schools

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A Big Step for Round Lake Schools

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 1, 2009

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School districts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Big Step for Round Lake Schools. Congratulations...the right direction. School board President W...referendum. TheyAEre your schools. We challenge community...interest in how the schools operate. District 116...contract with several years to go and the ability...through the 2010-2011 school year. We trust itAEs up...
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A/C Project No Sweat for Round Lake Schools

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 20, 2007

Subjects:

School construction

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Project No Sweat for Round Lake Schools. Byline: Jason...dailyherald.com School definitely will...Round Lake area school district this year. On Thursday...the District 116 school board the air conditioning...districts elementary schools are on track and...weve done in 30 years, and we need to...
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Schooldistrict Extols Fresh Start Round Lake Schools to Unveil 5-Year Plan

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 4, 2011

Subjects:

School districts

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Extols Fresh Start Round Lake Schools to Unveil 5-Year Plan. Byline...many suburban school districts, but...the 2010-11 school year as part of...senior year of high school. In addition...District 116s nine schools and establishing...
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Round Lake Schools, Teachers Reach Deal

Newspaper article by Jason King; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 6, 2007

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School districts, Schools, Teachers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Round Lake Schools, Teachers Reach...Round Lake-area school district and its...attorney for the school district, said...new, multi-year contract. Since...students in eight schools. The contract...proposing a five-year contract while...
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Pounds 2m Boost for Schools; Cash to Extend Round-the-Clock Care

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), July 21, 2009

Subjects:

Elementary schools

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Schools; Cash to Extend Round-the-Clock Care...be distributed among schools on Teesside to enable...2010-11 to allow all schools to offer round-the-clock care. Schools will be able to offer...before and after the school day, and enable parents...from 8am-6pm, all year round for primary schools...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: year round schools

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Football

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...an inflated oval or round ball past a goal line...millions on television each year. Most of the modern...various English public schools, including Rugby...In amateur (high school and college) football...caught on at the other schools also, and within a...AFL champions. Four years later the two leagues...conference) play a four-round playoff culminating...
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Liberia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...improvement of roads, schools, and health standards...May of the following year it also imposed sanctions...during the following year, and the rebels continued...Liberia in 2003; that year the United Nations also...proved inadequate by years end. In light of the...George Weah won the first round with 28% of the vote...
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Algeria

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...popular vote to five-year terms, and the 144...vote and serve six-year terms. Administratively...built roads, railroads, schools, and hospitals. The...of the more than seven years fighting at least 100...language, and in the same year a massive earthquake...1991. When first-round elections were held in...
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Sri Lanka

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...were developed, and schools, including a university...entitled to an additional year in office because of...swearing-in ceremony a year after she was elected...claim to an additional year in 2005.) The following...than honored. A new round of Norwegian-sponsored...continued into subsequent years and steadily succeeded...
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South Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Assembly for a five-year term and serves as both...Legislators serve five-year terms. The constitution...Africa. About 2,000 years ago, the pastoral Khoikhoi...the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope...mounted in the following years as British Prime Minister...instruction in black schools. Over the next months...

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