A longer school day may not be the correct way to improve our learning curve. In fact it may well even be counter-productive. The human brain can only absorb so much, so fast. If say a curriculum is bad how will spending more time studying it make it any better?
Longer school days do offer the prospect of extended child care and that is attractive to some but I question its effectiveness as a means to improve educational results.of There are plenty who extol the virtues of an extended day and may even claim to have studies to back it up. Well everyone should know how I feel about numbers. I think a lot of these claims are bogus and are based on shallow data. It is darn near impossible to isolate the length of the school day as a variable.
Our attention spans are so short that we garble up our language so we don't have to type our text messages. Where is the arguments for TWITTER expanding it's character limitations? Less is more, right?
My guess it's not so much how much we're spending doing it as what we are doing.Getting a child excited about reading will make the learning take care of itself. Libraries in elementary schools should be our NUMBER 1 priority.
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