News Articles 

Schools Need Longer Day to Make Up Lost Ground
The Boston Globe

Checker Finn on Building a Smarter Education System
The Wall Street Journal 

Students Benefit from Longer School Days
CNN 

Study Eyes Effect of Extra Learning Time on Scores
Education Week

Why can't regular schools expand learning time?
The Washington Post 

Talking Time: Longer School Days Focus for Districts
The Oklahoman

4 RI Schools Get Grants to Study Expanding School Day
Providence Journal

Is More Time the Wave of the Future?
BPI Policy Lunch

TIME Magazine Features Expanded Learning Time
TIME Magazine

Expand School Hours and You Will Expand Learning
U.S. News & World Report

A Longer School Day, A Smarter Kid?
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Longer hours, better results?
The Huntsville Times

Officials Consider Longer School Day
The Huntsville Times

Districts Debate Four-Day School Week
ABC News World Tonight

Stimulus to Help Retool Education, Duncan Says
The Washington Post

Education Chief Favors More Learning Time
CNN.com

Time Hasn't Been On Their Side 
ED.Magazine - The Magazine of the Harvard Gradudate School of Education 

Consensus on Learning Time Builds
Education Week

Some School Years Go Beyond the State-Required 180 Days
The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Clock Is Ticking...
The Edmond Sun

Toledo Public Schools academy principal to speak at conference Panel to discuss extended learning time 
Toledo Blade

Failing Texas schools face dwindling options to remedy them
The Dallas Morning News

State superintendent urges leaders to better manage teaching minutes
The Oklahoman

Big Gain in U.S. Education, but holes remain
USA Today 

The School Experiment That's Paying Off
The Boston Globe

Finding Time for Success: Test Pressures Spur Some Schools to Stretch Out Calendar
The Washington Post

The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade
The New York Times

USA Today Debate: Our View on More Time in School
USA Today

Poverty's Effect on U.S. Scores Greater Than for Other Nations

Education Week

Stop the Narrowing of the Curriculum By 'Right-Sizing' School Time 

Education Week

More time in class equals better math skills
USA Today

School day gets the short shrift
The Boston Herald

Center to help extend school days, calendar
The Washington Times

New Center to Study Use of Time in School and to Aid Enrichment
Education Week

Do school activities help, hurt?
The Oklahoman

Our schools must do better
The New York Times

Richardson: Money for schools, not war Proposes longer school year and school day, repeal of No Child Left Behind
The Associated Press

Mass. more than doubles number of schools with an expanded day
The Associated Press

Do longer hours equal more learning? Pressured to produce better students, 10 Massachusetts public schools pack more hours into their schedules.
The Christian Science Monitor

Saved by the (Later) Bell
Boston Globe Magazine

Longer days for schools
TC Palm (FL)

Failing Schools See a Solution in Longer Day
New York Times

Longer School Days? Struggling schools look for ways to improve
Scholastic News

U.S. Schools Weigh Extending Hours, Year
The Associated Press

Study Looks at Longer Day for Public Schools
NPR

Learning Takes Time
Newsweek

Schools Test Longer Days for Students
Kennedy Pushes for Longer Days Nationwide
WCVB Channel 5

MA Schools Test Longer School Day
WBUR Public Radio

Still Left Behind: What it Will Really Take to Close the Education Gap
The New York Times Magazine

Rethinking Recess
The Wall Street Journal

Expanding the School Day Makes Sense
Houghton Mifflin's Beyond the Book

Rethinking Time, The Next Frontier of Education Reform
Education Week