Year-Round Schooling: A Push for the Better

Introduction Most schools in the USA today follow the traditional 180 day education system. This system began in the 19th century when children entered. Students spend a ten-week summer vacation so that families can harvest on the farm. In March 2009, President Obama announced his competition plan in general. The program is designed to prolong the lesson hours or extend the school day. "When the United States is a farmer's country, we can no longer afford a design academic calendar, they need children to cultivate the land at home at the end of the day," he said .

Perhaps the main reason why educational supporters shifted from traditional calendars throughout the year is that they believe school education can provide better education for students throughout the year. Educator Susan Morse (1992) argues that the longer the student takes a vacation, the less the materials they hold. She added that year-round education can improve the academic performance of students who do not rely on home care. This seems logical, but Morse did not provide backing evidence that education throughout the year actually improved student academic performance. Indeed, Teresa Greenfield (1994) discovered that teachers and parents may have observed some improvement, but the results of standardized tests did not show such improvements. Furthermore, Dr. Gary Peltier (1991) pointed out that there is no big difference when comparing the student's score throughout the year with the student's score of a conventional calendar year.

There is no definitive conclusion as to whether school education research throughout the year is beneficial for children's research. However, researchers discovered that students going to school throughout the year performed as well or slightly better than students going to a traditional calendar school. The enrollment rate of students is usually high all year round.

Various studies have shown that students participating in full-year school tend to have higher performance than traditional short-term school students. The difference in performance between traditional students and similar year-old students is particularly important. There are many degrees of achievement gap between middle class students and low income class students. However, middle- and low-income students seem to achieve comparable results during the academic year.

The results of the research on whether the learning ability of the school improved over the year varied and one school reports the full year's income, but the other schools feel that the students of the traditional school are better grades . Esther Fusco, professor of education, health and welfare services at Hofstra University, says: These students made sense because they did not have a summer downtime. But the result was not that important.