More School - Obama Would Curtail Summer Vacation - NYTimes.com:
"''Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,'' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
Fifth-grader Nakany Camara is of two minds. She likes the four-week summer program at her school, Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. Nakany enjoys seeing her friends there and thinks summer school helped boost her grades from two Cs to the honor roll."
"''Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,'' Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
Fifth-grader Nakany Camara is of two minds. She likes the four-week summer program at her school, Brookhaven Elementary School in Rockville, Md. Nakany enjoys seeing her friends there and thinks summer school helped boost her grades from two Cs to the honor roll."
