2010-2011 Update on the MA Expanded Learning Time Initiative
Massachusetts 2020 recently released the 2010-2011 Update on the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative. Schools with four years of expanded time are demonstrating impressive increases in their proficiency rates across all grades and all tested subjects, including over 8 point gains in ELA and nearly 20 points gains in Math. As the ELT Initiative Update illustrates, ELT Schools are proving that, when combined with quality teaching and a commitment to student achievement, expanded learning time can be a powerful lever for change.
Kuss Middle School: Expanding Time to Accelerate School Improvement
In 2004, Kuss Middle School became the first school declared “Chronically Underperforming” by the state of Massachusetts. But by 2010, Kuss had transformed itself into a model for schools around the country seeking a comprehensive turnaround strategy. Kuss is using increased learning time as the primary catalyst to accelerate learning, deepen student engagement, and improve instruction, and has become a rare example of a school on the path to successful turnaround. This is their story.
More Time for Learning: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned
In May 2010, Mass 2020 released More Time for Learning: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned, the 2010 Progress Report of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative. The report, based on lessons learned over the past four years of the Initiative, highlights how successful expanded-time schools are using additional time to accelerate academic achievement, increase student engagement, and improve instruction.
Clarence Edwards Middle School: Success Through Transformation
Just a few years ago, Boston's Clarence Edwards Middle School was on the verge of being shut down. But by 2009, a renaissance at the Edwards made it one of the highest performing and most desired middle schools in Boston, dramatically narrowing and even eliminating academic achievement gaps while delivering a far more well-rounded education to its high-poverty student population.This is the story of how they did it.
Redesigning Today’s Schools to Build a Stronger Tomorrow
The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time 2007-2008 Annual Report looks at the continued success of ELT and explores how redesigned school days are engaging students, teachers and the community and enhancing the educational experience.
Time for a New Day: Broadening Opportunities for Massachusetts Schoolchildren
The Expanded Learning Time 2006 - 2007 Annual Report documents the first year success of Massachusetts' pioneering effort to expand learning time by 300 hours in public schools. Included are the promising academic results and survey data from teachers and parents from the first year of implementation.
Time for a Change: The Promise of Extended Time Schools for Promoting Student Achievement
This report analyzes the effective practices of eight public schools which feature at least fifteen percent more time than the conventional schedule. The study dissects how these schools – which we chose specifically because they had demonstrated success – managed to organize, staff, pay for and sustain a school built around more time and to understand how these educators believe the additional time strengthens their capacity to enable all students to achieve proficiency. The research was conducted with generous support from the L.G. Balfour Foundation, a Bank of America Company.
Amicus Curiae Brief in Support of Hancock vs. Driscoll
Massachusetts 2020 and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, along with education, civil rights and child advocacy leaders, submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in support of the plaintiffs in the Hancock vs. Driscoll school financing case. In the brief, we argue that to meet its constitutional obligation to provide all children with the level of education to which they are entitled, the state must ensure adequate learning time for all students, especially those at risk of failing, by expanding the time public school children spend in productive learning environments.
Read a summary of the brief
Download a copy of the brief filed on August 26, 2004
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