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...several years now educators have been puzzling over a nettlesome new math problem: with high-stakes exams requiring students to learn more, how should teachers go about cramming in the extra classwork? Popular answers have been to poach time from pursuits like art, PE and music or to excise field trips. According to a University of Virginia study published last year, some schools in that state even took to curtailing student bathroom trips to squeeze in extra study time...
...that, calling on the city to add a sixth day of school for nearly 84,000 struggling students. California's Governor Gray Davis made a similar move last month when he asked his state to extend its school year by 30 days to give 1 million middle schoolers an extra six weeks of class to help pull up sagging test scores. On the local level, schools across the country are extending the hours students spend in their clutches far beyond the typical seven-hour school day and 180-day school year by increasing after-hours classes and activities...
...more time means more money - and more people. And as the teaching shortage mounts, neither will be particularly easy to come by. The California plan boasts a $1.45 billion price tag, though officials there estimate the extra days could translate into a 50% increase in test scores. But while more appears to be better, more of the same-old lessons and techniques may not. So before Saturday cartoons morph into a sixth school day, educators ought to take an elongated look at what transpires during the other five. The bi-coastal calls for change are certainly an auspicious start...
Harvard's superior special teams unit is among the top in the nation, and should cause the Tigers problems if they find themselves with an extra...
Bowling Green scored two of its five goals on the power play, rendering the Tigers's shot advantage irrelevant. The Crimson has been extremely successful at finding the net with the extra man, and will look to take advantage of Princeton's undisciplined play...