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Emily Morton; Paul Thompson; Megan Kuhfeld – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Four-day school weeks are becoming increasingly common in the U.S., but their effect on achievement is not well-understood. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we conduct the most representative student-level analysis to date of the effects of four-day weeks on student achievement and within-year growth using NWEA MAP Growth data. We…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Students, School Schedules, Educational Change
Pascarella, Ernest T.; And Others – 1991
This paper estimates the effects of freshman athletic participation on reading comprehension, mathematics, and critical thinking controlling for pre-college aptitude and other influences. A group of 3,331 students from 18 four-year and 5 two-year colleges and universities participated in initial testing during fall of their freshman year. Testing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basketball, Cognitive Development, College Athletics