Teaching for the Future

More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo from Education Week:

From the Article: "Most of the nations elementary schools have added at least 75 minutes of instruction time in reading and mathematics each weekand often twice that amountin the five years since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, but many did so by skimming that time from the teaching of science, social studies, the arts, recess, and physical education."

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