Will year-round schools truly help diminish the summer learning loss? Schools districts all over the country have changed to a new kind of school calendar that runs year-round in hopes of giving students the best learning experience. These changes came at a time when the summer learning loss challenged students’ knowledge over the summer. The traditional calendar, which consisted of 180 total work days and a long summer break, had been broken up to several periods of in-session days with the breaks distributed throughout the year (Source B). Superintendents and teachers had hoped that this would battle against the summer learning loss by not giving it a chance to take effect. But even though year-round schools have the right intentions, the revised calendars are not any better in serving the students than the traditional schools are. Research has showed that some while children are aided with the help of the year-round calendar, it does not help with …show more content…
Paul von Hippel, a sociologist at Ohio State University, had created a study on whether or not kids learned better in year-round schools than in traditional schools. His results, as recorded in Source C, indicated that students in year-round schools learn more in the summer, but seem to learn less than others during the rest of the year. von Hippel also said that according to his results “year-round schools don’t really solve the problem of the summer learning loss-they simply spread it out across the year.” This particular study also discovered that while year-round schools did not decline the summer learning loss it did help economically disadvantaged student with their learning. The time spent in schools over the summer resulted in a slight increase in reading abilities. Although some students were aided with this program, the ultimate goal of taking away the summer learning loss was not