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  • Are longer school days the answer?

    Schools across the nation are experimenting with longer school days.  On average, U.S. students are spending 6.5 hours of their day inside a school building.  Some educators are thinking that if they have the students longer, they can accomplish more. One model that public schools are looking to is the Knowledge is Power Program, which ...
    Posted to Betty's Blog (Weblog) by Betty on February 26, 2007
  • Open the jar sequel

    With plans to start the Utah voucher program this fall, it will be interesting to see how many worm their way into court to put a lid on making vouchers available for all public school students.  Payout for the first year is estimated to be $9.3 for about 3,000 interested in moving from public to private ...
    Posted to Betty's Blog (Weblog) by Betty on February 21, 2007