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[[Image:Morrisville Elementary School, North Carolina (Year Round Traffic Sign).jpg|thumb|This sign for [[Morrisville, North Carolina|Morrisville]] Elementary School in [[North Carolina]] includes flashing lights to alert drivers that students may be on the roadways even during summer months.]] |
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'''Year-Round School''' is the scheduling of [[School|educational institutions]] so that students take class throughout the entire calendar year. A motivation is that higher student throughput is accomplished via more effective scheduling of school resources. Year round schedules deliver the same number of total days of classroom education and vacation as traditional calendars, distributed differently throughout the year. Funding considerations favor multi-tracking students, which allows more students to use the same number of classrooms, instead of constructing entirely new schools. Some institutions use this method to relieve overcrowding in some of the larger schools. |
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Advocates claim that year-round calendars help students achieve higher and allow teachers to provide more effective education. Reports from the [[California]] [[California#Education|State Department Of Education]] show that standardized reading test scores increased 19.3% for year-round grade school students<ref name="USDE YRE Enhancement">{{citation|author=[[United States Department of Education]]|title=What YRE Can Do To Enhance Academic Achievement and To Enrich the Lives of Students That the Traditional Calendar Cannot Do.|year=1992|url=http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Recoretails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED352223&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b8012eae5}}</ref> and that a greater number of year-round students met state score objectives than those on traditional schedules<ref name="USDE YRE Enhancement"/>. Conversely, opponents insist that year-round education is detrimental to student learning. Some school board officials and studies indicate negative impacts of schedule changes and year-round education. Lawsuits have even been filed against various school districts to block or ban year-round calendars<ref>{{citation|author=Mexican American Legal Defense Fund|title=Students, Parents File Suit Against State's Funding Of School|url=http://www.maldef.org/news/press.cfm?ID=33}}</ref>, charging that year-round education is "harmful to students." |
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[[File:Morrisville Elementary School, North Carolina (Front view).jpg|thumb|Front view of a year-round school in Morrisville. Here is this school's [http://morrisvillees.wcpss.net/calendars/06-07-year-round.pdf Academic Calendar] for 2006–2007. Morrisville has been a year-round school since its construction; it is part of a program [http://www.wcpss.net/news/2006_yr_conversion-comments/ that has been running for more than 16 years] to implement year-round schools.]] |
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'''Proponents of year-round school cite:''' |
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** Surveys in year-round districts<ref>{{citation|author=Wake System|title=Teacher Survey: Year-Round Conversion|url=http://www.wcpss.net/attachments/final-teacher-yr-survey.pdf|date=2006-05-04}}</ref> indicate that between 60% to 90% of teachers prefer year-round education. |
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** Prevention of student and teacher [[Burnout (psychology)|burnout]]<ref name="USDE YRE Enhancement"/> |
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** Decrease of teacher and student absences due to shorter instructional cycles<ref name="USDE Single-vs-Multi">{{citation|author=Kneese, Carolyn|title=Single-Track vs. Multi-Track Schedules|publisher=United States Department of Education (ERIC Digest)|date=2000-08-01|url=http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-3/year.htm}} |
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==Criticisms== |
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Opposition to year round schools can be fervent. [[Wake County Public School System|Wake County, North Carolina]], parents opposed to their children being assigned to schools with a year round schedule took their case to the North Carolina Supreme Court.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3442126/|title=Supreme Court to hear year-round school case|date=2008-08-27|publisher=WRAL|accessdate=2008-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wral.com/news/local/asset_gallery/1404213/|title=Mandatory Year Round Debate Archive|language=WRAL|accessdate=2008-08-27}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Education issues]] |
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[[Category:School types]] |
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[[Category:Education policy]] |
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