There’s no national policy dictating how many days or hours students must attend classes each year. That means students in some states and districts can end the year with substantially more learning ...

Small steps to protect student learning time can have big payoffs. Two school leaders who have worked to cut down on the seemingly minor classtime disruptions that add up to major lost learning time ...

Centereach, N.Y.: A fifth grader at Holbrook Road Elementary School in Centereach, New York takes the New York State English Language Arts exam on April 4, 2019. Centereach, N.Y.: A fifth grader at ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. It was just after 2:30 p.m. on a recent Wednesday, and the school stage hadn’t yet transformed ...

Time spent online is no guarantee of quality learning. Constant solicitations, zapping, cognitive fatigue... numerous obstacles fragment our attention and discourage deep intellectual engagement. To ...

AMHERST — Amherst school officials are being required by the state’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to take corrective action after the agency determined Amherst Regional High School ...

The state has found that a Greater Boston high school is short on learning time, forcing district officials to adopt a new schedule that delivers the required instructional hours. Brookline High ...

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My son’s high school has something called Independent Learning Time this year. Is this another fad? Will it help students? Yes, it’s another fad that is unlikely to help your child. Independent ...