SW Minn. schools start early in test score experiment
August 24, 2010 at 7:48 am in Duluth News Tribune
The school year has begun for 16,000 students in southwestern Minnesota, who are part of a three-year experiment to see if starting class before Labor Day can improve test scores. Continue Reading
If you have kids sitting in class in August when they’re not used to it, there’s two ways it will go: They’ll want to learn and succeed, or they’ll daydream and wish they were playing Xbox.
The key to their success isn’t which day they start, but that they want to learn, that they have quality teachers and that their parents actually care about their education. If those three aren’t in place, then this experiment will get the big stamp of fail.
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