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A study released in 2007 by The Ohio State University, however, found that there are really no differences in learning between students who attend school year round, and those who are on a traditional schedule.

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the most obvious downside of year-round school is the effect it can have on families. Quality family time is important to the emotional and developmental well being of a child. Not having a summer break can make it difficult to schedule meaningful family time. "The major drawback is the assumed detriment to family structure," Lynch says. "American families have become accustomed to the traditional long summer vacation. Parents may find it difficult to schedule vacations and family reunions."

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-Rough transition
-Decrease in participation in extra curriculars and activities
-No Vacation time

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Elo                                  others complain that students on year-round schedules, particularly multi-track ones, miss out on time with their friends and come to resent school as a result.

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Elo                                  others complain that students on year-round schedules, particularly multi-track ones, miss out on time with their friends and come to resent school as a result.

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http://www.edudemic.com/learning-curve-report-education/

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http://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/year-round-vs-traditional-schedule-public-schools

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The very thought of sending kids to school year-round makes some parents cringe. They balk at the idea of kids attending schools with no summer break. They question the value of a continuous school year interspersed with several short breaks. While the schedule is definitely not what the majority of adults grew up with, it's not nearly as onerous as some people think. Rather than giving kids less time off, a year-round schedule offers the same 180 days of schooling as the traditional calendar, created long ago to ensure children were home to help their parents harvest crops.
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Kids in year-round schools attend classes for anywhere from six to nine weeks in a row, broken up by two- to four-week vacations. That, say some educators, keeps the learning process ongoing with minimal disruption. A Duke University study even suggested kids attending year-round schools are at a slight advantage, because they don't forget what they learned during the long summer break.

Schools in fast-growing areas transition to year-round schedules as a way to ease overcrowding. When that occurs, kids are placed on multi-tracks, and alternate tracking in and out of the school, a process that keeps the buildings in constant use.

Frequent breaks are a mainstay of year-round schooling, but they aren't for everyone. Patricia McCracken, who grew up attending a year-round school in Virginia Beach, Virginia, says she found the two-week breaks, which occurred every six weeks at her school, to be disruptive. "It was really hard to get involved in the work because as soon as you geared up, you had to gear back down again."

Mary Brown, a middle-school teacher in Wake County (where three-week breaks occur every nine weeks), says she doesn't see that as a problem at her school. "Our schedule offers the kids a break from school right when they need it," she says. Earlier this year, after their first three-week break, she says, the kids seemed refreshed. "They didn't have the bored, glazed-over look of kids who had been in school for weeks on end with no break in sight."

Juggling different school schedules is one of the toughest problems parents of children in both year-round and traditional schools face. Many high schools don't employ a year-round calendar because of sports schedules. And teens want to be able to take summer jobs.

The year-round schedule can make finding appropriate childcare a problem too. Because her mom was a teacher in a traditional school, McCracken says, "It meant my sister and I were basically latchkey kids for two or three years because it was impossible to find a babysitter for two weeks every six weeks." As year-round schooling becomes more common, however, communities are meeting the demand by offering track-out programs for kids who aren't in school.

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The very thought of sending kids to school year-round makes some parents cringe. They balk at the idea of kids attending schools with no summer break. They question the value of a continuous school year interspersed with several short breaks.

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http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_futures/2013/11/year-round_schooling_how_it_affects_students.html

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pro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtcAgx_qjEQ

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Why students may benefit from year-round schooling

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Doing clubs and activities will decrease.

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Why students may benefit from year-round schooling

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At one school in West Virginia, administrators, teachers and parents swear by a year-round calendar that has the same number of teaching days as any other school, just spread throughout the year. Special Correspondent Alison Steward explores how changing the school calendar can affect student achievement.

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http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/fa/yr/guide.asp

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Students do not want to give up their summers!

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NEA Reviews of the Research on Best Practices in Education

The most popular form of year-round education is the 45-15 plan, where students attend school for 45 days and then get three weeks (15 days) off. The usual holiday breaks are still built into this calendar. Two other ways to organize a school calendar are the 60-20 and the 90-30 plans. Perhaps, the most important facet of year-round education is how it is implemented. Schools may operate on a single-track schedule where all students are on the same calendar and get the same holidays off, or a multi-rack schedule, which has groups of students attending school at different times with different vacations. Multi-tracking is popular because it allows schools to enroll more students than buildings would normally hold.

Some arguments for year-round education include:

Students tend to forget a lot during the summer break, so a shorter time away from school might increase retention rates.

It's a more efficient use of school space because otherwise buildings are unoccupied during the summer.

Remediation can occur when it is most needed - during the school year.

Some critics of year-round education contend:

Band and other extracurricular programs suffer from problems with scheduling out-of-school practices and competitions.

If an entire district does not adopt a year-round calendar, parents could have students at different schools at different schedules.

Studies have been inconclusive to its academic benefits.

Is year-round education a reform that will greatly increase student achievement or just another attempt to oversimplify some of the concerns with education? Here is what the research offers on year-round education:

All-Day, All-Year Schools
In this article, Ruy Teixeira (The Century Foundation, 2004) shows that when year-round education is accompanied by enrichment and remedial programs and other extensions of the year - as opposed to simply stretching out the school year, but with smaller breaks - achievement effects tend to be positive.

Student Segregation and Achievement Tracking in Year-Round Schools
Student Segregation and Achievement Tracking in Year-Round Schools - Authors Ross E. Mitchell and Douglas E. Mitchell present this case study, which reveals substantial differences in the characteristics of students and teachers across the four attendance tracks of eight YRE schools in one large California school district.

Alternative Calendars: Extended Learning and Year-Round Programs
Authors E. A. Palmer and A. E. Bemis provide a comprehensive updated review of the literature and research on effective models of year-round education.

Research on Year-Round Education
Educational researchers Carolyn M. Shields and Steven L. Oberg of the University of British Columbia visited schools and districts in the United States and Canada, examined student achievement results on standardized tests, and surveyed parents, teachers, and administrators to assess the impact of year-round schools.

Year-Round Education
Author Tyler Weaver explores the possible benefits and the points to consider before adopting year-round education. (ERIC Digest, Number 68)

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Research Spotlight on Year-Round Education

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Most schools in the United States operate on the 10-month calendar that was established when America was still an agrarian country. But times have changed and many people propose doing away with this outdated system and moving to year-round education.

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A shorter summer can help from forgetting things learned.

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Decreases drop out rates

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It's back-to-school season for much of the country, but for some students, school is never out.

For some, classes are in session all year long: About 3,700 K-12 public schools across the country operate on a year-round calendar - approximately 4 percent of all U.S. schools in 2011-12, according to the latest data available from the National Center for Education Statistics.

A year-round calendar, also referred to as a balanced calendar, reorganizes the 180 school days by shortening the traditional summer break, dispersing those days into several smaller breaks throughout the year. These breaks (usually two to three weeks long) are called intersessions, and schools can use that time for remediation and enrichment programs for students. The method is popular in other countries, but U.S. research has been deemed too inconclusive to draw any long-term conclusions.

David Hornak, executive director of the National Association for Year-Round Education, an organization that advocates for shorter summers to help improve student achievement, explained to CNBC's "On the Money" that a year-round calendar helps stem summer learning loss often seen in children when they break for the extended holiday.

"On average, a teacher on the traditional calendar is required to re-teach between four and eight weeks annually after the summer intermission," said Hornak, who's also the superintendent of Holt Public Schools in Holt, Michigan - where two schools in his district operate on a year-round calendar. He referred to the findings in the 2006 published Charles Ballinger and Carolyn Kneese book "School Calendar Reform."

When learning loss compounds year after year, Hornak argued "students entering high school could be a year to a year and a half behind their counterparts on the balanced school calendar."

Christine Campbell, a teacher from West Virginia and the president of the American Federation of Teachers in West Virginia, said there a lot of factors are contributing to students falling behind - and it's not only due to a long summer break.

Campbell, however, said changing the calendar may not be the right solution. While there are two schools in her district that operate on a year-round schedule, she said some schools went back to a traditional calendar after being on a year-round schedule.

"Aside from the logistical problems, there are so many other things that actually improve student achievement," Campbell told CNBC.

For example, Campbell mentioned that her district has community schools. These are schools that have partnerships with community resources like health and social services. She added that by making the school a hub for the community, it strengthens the value of education.

Paying for year-round school is another big factor to consider, the educator added. "In the summer there are opportunities for federally funded programs but in the intersessions it falls down on the locals," said Campbell. "So the resources it takes to provide some of those programs we don't necessarily have in our rural areas."

Yet Hornak said he believes the resources used to address the summer learning loss could be benefiting students in a better, more efficient way.

"If we could repurpose the funds that we are putting into closing those learning gaps that we are in fact creating by operating on the traditional calendar, I just wonder what education would look like in the future," he said.

"On the Money" airs on CNBC Saturdays at 5:30 am EDT, or check listings for air times in local markets.

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What if school wasn't out for the summer? Experts debate yearlong education

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It's back-to-school season for much of the country, but for some students, school is never out. For some, classes are in session all year long: About 3,700 K-12 public schools across the country operate on a year-round calendar - approximately 4 percent of all U.S.

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Schools in fast-growing areas transition to year-round schedules as a way to ease overcrowding. When that occurs, kids are placed on multi-tracks, and alternate tracking in and out of the school, a process that keeps the buildings in constant use.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtcAgx_qjEQ

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http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/choosing-schools-programs/pros-and-cons-year-round-schools

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http://www.nea.org/tools/17057.htm

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Cost savings

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Band and other extracurricular programs suffer from problems with scheduling out-of-school practices and competitions.

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Increases student achievement

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Quality family time is important to the emotional and developmental well being of a child. Not having a summer break can make it difficult to schedule meaningful family time.

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Year-round schooling Year-round Schooling By: Lexi Scott Disruptive to family life. Little/no academic benefit. Delays summer learning. Summer vacation. More then 180 days. No difference in score. Lower class sizes (pro/con). What the parents think Summer break isn't long. They question year-round schooling. Beneficial / same amount of days .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7k8EURvmyM

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More of a chance to remember things learned.

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Kids are more refreshed with frequent breaks

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doesn’t help students who have difficulty with attention

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students wont forget what they learned over the summer

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Students will get lazy because school seems to last longer

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No quality time with family and friends.

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can improve a child's academic achievement. Long summers are known to cause "summer slide," or the decline of academic skills and knowledge over the course of the extended vacation. T

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year-round calendars place additional demands on school support staff and on cafeteria, custodial and maintenance services

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Can be very stressful and more expensive.

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-Mess up vacation time/time with family.
-Parents that work have a harder time finding a care-taker during weird breaks.
-Different schools have different weird breaks.

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No time to go on long vacations.

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-too many breaks throughout the year
- students won't be as attentive

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Families with children in different schools or districts may be faced with conflicting school break schedules.

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http://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/mailbag/year-round-school-bad-idea-for-students/article_356f1b3a-baa2-11de-ade3-001cc4c03286.html

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Unable to enjoy a long summer break

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Teachers who traditionally continue their own education during the summer break need to find alternative forms of education and training.

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We'll probably learn more.

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Can break up the curriculum too much

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No Summer Vacation.

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The summer is too hot to be in school

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Feels like you are in school longer.

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Feels longer because there  are many little breaks throughout

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Keeps students focused and on task.

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More breaks in the long school year

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cant plan outside of school. no set summer or days off

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More time to learn content. More than 2 weeks, then test.

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more breaks to rest the mind

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Children from disadvantaged families who may be at risk during long summer breaks with unscheduled time on their hands benefit from shorter breaks

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https://youtu.be/EY5mPsWm5cw

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Their will be less break time during the best season.

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Lessened peak-levels of stress

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school is more spaced out

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Summer is for fun

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Have the opportunity to truly understand what is taught during the year

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Summer is too short for summer school

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Doesn't feel like school is truly ending.

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No definite SUMMER break

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prevents "summer slide"
kids will be less bored

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https://www.care.com/c/stories/3283/the-pros-and-cons-of-year-round-school/

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no traditional summer camps, clubs, sports, school

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Students will have less time off to forget the material they learned the past year

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-Students won't have the summer decline academic wise.
-Students do not stay engaged during the summer so with year round they will.
-Stress to get everything done before a big break is eliminated.

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You won't forget what you learned throughout summer break

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More Learning.

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More time to relax throughout the whole year

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More frequent breaks

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Inability to hold a summer job and acquire experience in the work force

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Eliminating any sort of long break from school can improve a child's academics. Kids tend to lose the knowledge from previous years.

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Still the same amount of breaks and they are longer.

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List Cons to Year Round Schooling in this Collumn

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