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Study Highlights 'Power of More Time' for Science Learning
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Erik Robelen
Education Week
11/16/2011
A new report makes the case for restructuring the school calendar to allow more learning time for science, and through a set of case studies seeks to explain promising approaches to make the most of that extra time.
"Together, these schools offer a glimpse of what is possible when schools and districts make science a priority and when they furnish students and teachers with the time they need to build dynamic science programs," says the report from the National Center on Time & Learning, a research and advocacy group.
(Released today, the report was supported by funding from the Noyce Foundation, which recently provided a grant to Education Week to produce a special report on science learning outside the classroom.)
The report issued today by the National Center on Time & Learning laments the science achievement levels of U.S. students overall and cites studies suggesting that science instruction in the elementary grades has increasingly been squeezed out of the curriculum.
