School crowding, year-round schooling, and mobile classroom use: Evidence from North Carolina

McMullen, Steven; Rouse, Kathryn

doi:10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.05.005

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“…In a second study, McMullen and Rouse (2012a) ask if year-round calendars are more beneficial for students in highly crowded schools. Interestingly, the results in that paper (shown in panel 2, columns D and E, of table 1) suggest that when used in the absence of school crowding year-round schools have a small negative impact on student achievement.…”

Section: Impact Of Mtyrs On Student Achievement: California Versus Wamentioning

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Multi-Track Year-Round Schooling as Cost Saving Reform: Not Just a Matter of Time

Graves

McMullen

Rouse

2013

Education Finance and Policy

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In the face of school crowding and fears about inequalityinducing summer learning loss, many schools have started to adopt multi-track year-round school calendars, which keep the same number of school days, but spread them more evenly across the calendar year. This change allows schools to support a larger student population by rotating which students are on break at any point in time. While year-round schooling can save money, the impact on academic achievement is uncertain and only recently have large-scale studies become available for policy makers. This brief examines research on the effects of multi-track year-round schooling, focusing on two rigorously executed case studies. This research gives little support for claims that year-round schooling will boost student achievement. Except as a remedy for highly over-crowded schools, year-round schooling seems to have little impact on achievement, and has even been shown to decrease achievement, especially among the most high-risk student populations.

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Section: Impact Of Mtyrs On Student Achievement: California Versus Wamentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Track Year-Round Schooling as Cost Saving Reform: Not Just a Matter of Time

Graves

McMullen

Rouse

2013

Education Finance and Policy

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Education Research and Administrative Data

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Karbownik²,

Salvanes

2016

Handbook of the Economics of Education

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Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to store and analyze data, so have the world's governments developed large-scale, comprehensive data files on tax programs, workforce information, benefit programs, health, and education. While these data are collected for purely administrative purposes, they represent remarkable new opportunities for expanding our knowledge. This chapter describes some of the benefits and challenges associated with the use of administrative data in education research. We also offer specific case studies of data that have been developed in both the Nordic countries and the United States, and offer an (incomplete) inventory of data sets used by social scientists to study education questions on every inhabited continent on earth. 2 Education Research and Administrative Data

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The effect of multi-track year-round academic calendars on property values: Evidence from district imposed school calendar conversions

Depro

Rouse

2015

Economics of Education Review

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School crowding, year-round schooling, and mobile classroom use: Evidence from North Carolina

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Multi-Track Year-Round Schooling as Cost Saving Reform: Not Just a Matter of Time

Multi-Track Year-Round Schooling as Cost Saving Reform: Not Just a Matter of Time

Education Research and Administrative Data

The effect of multi-track year-round academic calendars on property values: Evidence from district imposed school calendar conversions

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