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Implementing More and Better Learning Time: Understanding the Actors, the Stage, and the Setting
Sun, April 6, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Convention Center, Floor: 200 Level, 202ASession Type: Symposium
Abstract
Affluent families allocate significant private resources to educational enrichment, often outside of formal schooling. Enrichment through community resources is also more available to advantaged families. This contributes to a gap in opportunities to learn among socioeconomic classes in the US. In response, private foundations and state governments have developed expanded learning time initiatives, aiming to increase time for learning in struggling schools and increase opportunities for enrichment for children from low-income families. This session documents how one such reform - “More and Better Learning Time” - is interpreted and enacted by local actors. In particular, we identify challenges and barriers to equity-based reform, as well as strategies that community organizers, teachers unions, and others adopt to dismantle those barriers.
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Keeping Pace of Falling Behind: Analyzing Learning Time as a Resource for Educational Innovation and Equity - Nicole Mirra, University of California - Los Angeles; John S. Rogers, University of California - Los Angeles
Approaching “Better” as a Rorschach Test: How Preexisting Reform Dispositions Influence the Implementation of More and Better Learning Time in Colorado - Joshua Jared Prudhomme, University of Colorado - Boulder; Kevin G. Welner, University of Colorado - Boulder
Equity Reform in Action: How Teachers and Working-Class Families Fight for Expanded Opportunities to Learn - Hannah Jones, University of Colorado - Boulder; Daniela Kruel DiGiacomo, University of Colorado - Boulder
Developing Indicators of the “More and Better Learning Time” Zone of Mediation - Michelle Renee, Brown University; Jaime Del Razo, Brown University; Warren Simmons, Brown University; Marisa Saunders, Annenberg Institute for School Reform