2015
DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00165
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Does Shortening the School Week Impact Student Performance? Evidence from the Four-Day School Week

Abstract: Public schools face difficult decisions on how to pare budgets. In the current financial environment, school districts employ a variety of policies to close budget gaps and stave off teacher layoffs and furloughs. An increasing number of schools are implementing four-day school weeks hoping to reduce overhead and transportation costs. The four-day-week policy requires substantial schedule changes as schools must increase the length of their school day to meet state-mandated minimum instructional hour requireme… Show more

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“…5 Despite their growing prevalence, little work has been done to understand the impact of four-day school weeks on students. To the best of our knowledge, the only study at this point which evaluates the impact of four-day school weeks is Anderson and Walker (2014). Their analysis focuses on the state of Colorado and they find a modest, but statistically significant, positive relationship between the policy and elementary school students' math and reading test scores.…”
Section: Four-day School Week Policiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…5 Despite their growing prevalence, little work has been done to understand the impact of four-day school weeks on students. To the best of our knowledge, the only study at this point which evaluates the impact of four-day school weeks is Anderson and Walker (2014). Their analysis focuses on the state of Colorado and they find a modest, but statistically significant, positive relationship between the policy and elementary school students' math and reading test scores.…”
Section: Four-day School Week Policiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…15 Anecdotally, there is little reason to believe that the adoption of the policy is in response to crime patterns in a given county or correlated with unobservable time varying county characteristics that also correlate with juvenile crime; two issues which would undermine the causal interpretation of the policy's effect. In Colorado, the schools that have adopted a four-day school week most often cite financial savings as the reason (Grau and Shaughnessy, 1987;Donis-Keller and Silvernail, 2009;Anderson and Walker, 2014). The Colorado Department of Education states that four-day schedules are almost entirely adopted by schools in rural districts that serve a dispersed group of students because they can save on transportation costs.…”
Section: Empirical Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Total points are divided by the number of students to calculate school averages. Although the average achievement of students in a school does not account for individual variation in achievement between students, it is useful for examining the relations between the general level of achievement in a school and characteristics of the school (Anderson and Walker, 2015;Hill et al, 2006). Table 3 reports the descriptive statistics for the academic performance indicators: The mean for math pro…cient/advanced percentage is 50.48 (standard deviation=24.05), mean for the math score index is 2.53 (standard deviation=0.54), and the mean for the CPI index is 76.30 (standard deviation=14.57).…”
Section: Data On Academic Achievementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The move to a four-day school week is often driven by the need to save money during state or school district budget constraints (Anderson & Walker, 2015;Bitton, 2016;Cummings, 2015;Donis-Keller & Silvernail, 2009;Henton, 2015;Herring, 2010;Juneau, 2011;Plucker et al, 2012;Sagness & Salzman, 1993;Tobias, 2016). This budget driven innovation in schools is identical to the actions taken by governmental agencies that face funding constraints that result in changes to worker schedules.…”
Section: Four-day Work Week: a Cost-saving Initiativementioning
confidence: 99%