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Monday, 01 June 2009 00:00 |
June NewsletterThe recent Swine Influenza outbreak closed a small number of schools for several days, in Europe during the winter, sometimes schools close for weeks. A university study on the absenteeism and test performance, have found that, students who are absent from school for five or more days, were much more likely to not meet age appropriate learning targets. In brief, student time on task is important to learning. Every day your child is out of school, for whatever reason, his or her learning achievement suffers. Just being in school, however, is only the starting point. Researchers have pointed out a difference between the amount of time schools allocate for learning, the amount of time during which students are engaged in learning, and actual learning time. Click here to read more... June Newsletter More news >
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