Education Week

The 4-Day School Week: What Research Shows About the Alternative Schedule

A growing number of school districts have turned to abbreviated weeks over the past two decades, sometimes in a bid to save money, other times to give themselves the upper hand in recruiting teachers, ...
Education Week

Do 4-Day School Weeks Attract and Retain Better Teachers? What the Largest Study Yet Says

For education leaders, particularly in hard-to-staff rural districts, shortening the school week has become a key selling point for staffing. But new research suggests that four-day schedules may do ...
The Spokesman-Review

4-day school weeks are growing in popularity, despite a lack of data on the effects

Northeast of the capital city of Des Moines in central Iowa, the 400-student Collins-Maxwell Community School District is one of many across the state shifting to a four-day school week. Like many ...
The Gazette

4-day school weeks are growing in popularity, despite a lack of data on the effects

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Northeast of Des Moines in central Iowa, the 400-student Collins-Maxwell Community School District is ...