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In the NewsAcross the Commonwealth and across the country, people are talking about Expanded Learning Time. Here’s the latest: POST SUMMIT: ARCHIVED articles
Governor Patrick Visits the Edwards Middle School in Charlestown to Celebrate its Transformation
January 13, 2010 Governor Deval Patrick, along with Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Superintendent Carol Johnson recently visited the Edwards Middle School in Charlestown to tout its highly successful school transformation that has been driven by its conversion to an expanded school day.
Tracking An Emerging Movement: A Report on Expanded Time Schools in America
December 7, 2009 Massachusetts 2020 and the National Center on Time & Learning is proud to announce the release of a groundbreaking report documenting the state of expanded-time schools in America. The report draws from our new national databse of schools that have broked from the conventional school calendar in order to improve educational outcomes. The database and report represent the most comprehensive attempt to define and describe this growing and much watched field.
Remembering Senator Kennedy, A Champion for Education
August 26, 2009 Senator Edward Kennedy was a tireless advocate for the underprivileged, dedicating his life to advancing causes that promoted equal opportunity for all.
TIME Magazine Features Expanded Learning Time Schools
July 17, 2009 Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Schools and Senator Kennedy's TIME Act were recently featured in TIME Magazine as an important factor in the national momentum to increase learning time in urban districts.
ELT Schools Inspire Kennedy Legislation
July 9, 2009
Massachusetts ELT Initiative Highlighted in US News & World Report
June 19, 2009 The success of the Massachusetts ELT Inititiative was highlighted in an article in US News & World Report written by Massachusetts 2020 Chairman Chris Gabrieli on the benefits of expanding the school day.
ELT Called Key Ingredient to Successful Schools
June 16, 2009 Boston Superintendent Carol Johnson and Rep. Marty Walz (D-Boston), Co-Chair of the Legislature's Committee on Education, called for more Expanded Learning Time Schools across the state in a recent panel discussion on NECN's State of Education series.
ELT Highlighted as a Solution to the Achievement Gap
May 28, 2009 MassINC’s new report looking at the fifteen years since the Ed Reform Act of 1993 highlights a longer school day in high poverty schools as a recommendation to combat the persistent achievement gap in Massachusetts. Find Incomplete Grade: Massachusetts Education Reform at 15 here.
Boston Globe Calls for Level Funding for ELT
May 19, 2009 Expanded Learning Time was highlighted by the Boston Globe as a critical component of our state’s education policy. The Globe advocated for level funding for ELT and lauded it as one of the few education initiatives that is making a difference closing the achievement gap and opportunity gap for students across the Commonwealth. Click here to read the editorial.
Massachusetts 2020, AFT MA, and MTA Release New Report
May 5, 2009 New policy brief on teacher impressions of time and learning released with Massachusetts teachers unions on National Teacher Appreciation Day. Click here to read the full report. Today, as the country celebrated National Teacher Day, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts and Massachusetts 2020 released a new policy brief on teacher impressions of time and learning. |
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