THE PERENNIAL REFORM: FIXING SCHOOL TIME

Lackluster research, the importance of non-economic goals to U.S. taxpayers and voters, and symbolic politics are the primary reasons why proposals to fix time in U.S. schools have failed to take hold during the last quarter century. State and federal blue-ribbon commissions will continue to make proposals about lengthening time in school. Those proposals will make headlines but they will not result in serious, sustained attention to what really matters - Improving the quality of the time that teachers and students spend with one another in and out of classrooms. © Phi Delta Kappa International, Inc.