How about a 21-hour school day?
Sent to the Washington Post, Jan 21
It is inspiring to read that so many educators, inspired by the hard-driving KIPP schools, are pushing for a longer school day and school year ("Efforts to extend school day, year reignite debate" Jan. 20). Proposals to extend the school day by 30 minutes, however, fall far short of what is needed.
Let's push ahead and consider an even longer day.
A study published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1991 concluded that a 21-hour school day is