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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
North American school systems have the longest summer breaks in the developed world. Research shows the learning loss from such long breaks is significant, and adopting European school years (6-week summer breaks, 6 weeks spread over the rest of the year) would improve learning outcomes. So yeah, I’m curious in what ways year round schooling was a failure, because I doubt it was a failure academically.
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What research?
McMillen (2001) - "results indicated that achievement in year-round schools was no higher than in traditional calendar schools and that differential effects ... were not of practical significance."
Patall, Cooper & Allen (2010) - "the evidence suggests there may be a neutral to small positive effect of extending school time on achievement."
"research designs used to examine the effects of a lengthened school day or school year generally do not permit strong causal inferences."
McMullen & Rouse (2014) - "results suggest that year-round schooling has essentially no impact on academic achievement of the average student."