Cleveland Ends Year-Round Schooling Citing No Meaningful Gains After 15 Years

Cleveland Ends Year-Round Schooling Citing No Meaningful Gains After 15 Years

The Cleveland school district is ending its15-year attempt to use year-round classes to improve student learning in some schools, deciding last week to drop what the district and some experts once viewed as the best way for students to avoid the so-called “summer slide.” Year-round schooling, which gained popularity in the 1970s, avoids long summer vacations in which students can forget much of what they learned during the school year. Under the…