Classroom of the Future

This report reviews the debate on and the policies concerning learning time in America's public schools

In a small office within the Palo Alto aol building, teams with big hearts (and sometimes very nervously) discussed their views on the future of Education for children all over the world.

Educational institutions have a huge flow of data, some not even digitized, and have no way to pour through it to make smart decisions for their schools or more importantly for their students

Each team had one thing in common, their belief in the importance of technology to make change happen in a system that hasn’t changed in decades.

   One argument in this literature is that the "year-round" calendar reduces summer learning loss. Consider the assumptions behind the contention that reducing summer from 12 weeks to 6 weeks is going to have much of an impact. It assumes that relatively little forgetting occurs between September and June but a huge amount of forgetting takes place between July and September. This seems implausible on the face of it. Moreover, the  difficulties of measuring such loss are often dismissed but they are large.