ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that K-12 schools shift from the traditional summers-off school calendar to a year-round one. It looks at the pros and cons of year-round schools. The chapter explores how students' experiences can be enhanced by implementing a year-round schooling system. Year-round schooling also means that students do not fall victim to the "summer slide", the well-documented phenomenon in which students can actually unlearn some of the knowledge they worked so hard to attain when too much consecutive time is taken off from school. Each community will feel a different economic impact when it comes to year-round schooling. For parents with children of different ages and in different schools, a year-round schedule could present serious scheduling issues. In order to validate their efforts, the implementation team will need to evaluate the effectiveness of its year-round schooling system. The team's evaluation plan should have been developed before the year-round schooling system was implemented.
