Done well, providing more time for students to learn can be a lever for forcing schools to rethink how teachers teach and how they lead. Expanded learning time (ELT) has emerged as a useful way to ...

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Time is money may be the new refrain for the extended-learning community, as divisions have emerged over how federal grants should be awarded to programs that provide extra hours of academic ...

April 16, 2026 - EdSource Editor-at-Large John Fensterwald explains how this election could reshape California schools. On a recent morning, nearly 100 children clapped, sang, and danced in a large ...

These partial expanded learning time programs all serve as examples of efforts to rethink the school calendar and to do so often with limited resources. These efforts are intentional, well-planned, ...