Telling Tales over Time: Constructing and Deconstructing the School Calendar

Teachers College Record

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1720-1757

  Weiss, Joel ^a   Brown, Robert S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Research Department   (Canada)

^c Toronto Board's Research Department   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348199319     PISSN: 01614681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-9620.2003.00307.x     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Aron, C. 1999. Working At Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Bamman, H. P. 1975. "Patterns of School Attendance in Toronto, 1844-1878: Some Spatial Considerations." In Education and Social Change: Themes from Ontario's Past, edited by M. B. Katz and P. H. Mattingly. New York: New York University Press.
3. Barrett, M. 1990. "The Case For More School Days." The Atlantic Monthly, November, 78-106.
4. Brown, R. S. 1999. "A Study of Absenteeism in the Toronto Board of Education, 1850-1997". Ed.D. diss., OISE/University of Toronto.
5. Carter, B. N. 1966. "James L. Hughes and the Gospel of Education: A Study of the Work and Thought of a Nineteenth Century Canadian Educator." Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto.
6. City of Guelph. Petition of Petrolia and Guelph to Minister of Education for the Province of Ontario, 1892. Archives of Ontario, Series RG 2-42, MS-5646.
7. Cooper, H., B. Nye, C. Kelly, J. Lindsay, and S. Greathouse. 1996. "The Effects of Summer Vacation on Achievement Test Scores: A Narrative and Meta-Analytic Review." Review of Educational Research 66, no. 3 (Fall): 227-268.
8. County of Grey. Petition of Grey, Lennox and Addington, Renfrew, Hastings, Weiland, Oxford, Huron, Wentworth, Kent, Wellington, Victoria, Peterborugh, and Carleton, to Minister of Education, 1886. Archives of Ontario, Series RG 2-42, MS-5660, MS-5646.
9. Cubberley, E. P. 1922. Rural Life and Education: A Study of the Rural-School Problem. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
10. Davey, I. E. 1975. "Educational Reform and the Working Class: School Achievement in Hamilton, Ontario 1851-1891." Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto.
11. Dull, M. 1998. "Last of the Ultimate Field Trips: School Break in McCain Country Has Long Meant Picking Spuds." Globe and Mail, 18 September, A2.
12. Eisner, E. 1994. The Educational Imagination: On the Design and Evaluation of School Programs, 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan College Publishing.
13. French, H. 2001. "More Sunshine'for Japan's Overworked Students." New York Times, 25 February, A6.
14. Fuller, W. E. 1982. The Old Country School: The Story of Rural Education in the Middle West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
15. Glines, D. 1995. Year-Round Education: History, Philosophy, Future. San Diego: National Association for Year-Round Education.
16. Gold, Kenneth M. 2002. School's In: The History of Summer Education in American Public Schools. New York: Peter Lang.
17. Goodnough, Abby. "Can Pupils Learn in One Sticky Month What They Didn't in 9?" New York Times, June 16, 2003. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/16/nyregion/16SCHO.html
18. Hodgins, J. George. 1894-1908. Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, from the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the Close of the Reverend Doctor Ryerson's Administration of the Education Department in 1876. Toronto: various printers.
19. Houston, S. E., and A. Prentice. 1988. Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
20. Husen, T., ed. 1967. International Study of Achievement in Mathematics: A Companion of Twelve Countries, Vol. 1. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell.
21. Kliebard, H. 1995. "The Feminization of Teaching on the American Frontier: Keeping Schools in Otsego, Wisconsin, 1867-1880." Journal of Curriculum Studies 27, NV5: 545-561.
22. Merino, B. 1983. "The Impact of Year-Round Schooling: A Review." Urban Education 18, no. 3: 298-316.
23. Monahan, A. C. 1913. The Status of Rural Education in the United States. Washington: Govt. Printing Office.
24. Monroe, P., ed. 1913. Cyclopedia of Education. New York: MacMillan.
25. National Education Commission on Time and Learning. 1994. Prisoners of Time. Washington: Commission.
26. New York State Teachers' Association. 1872-1873. The New York State Educational Journal. Buffalo,N.Y.: New York State Teachers' Association.
27. Noah, H., and M. Eckstein. 1969. Toward a Science of Comparative Education. New York: Macmillan.
28. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. 1999. Alternatives to Social Promotion and Grade Retention. Available at http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/timely/spover.htm.
29. Ontario Department of Education. 1841-1913. Report of the Department of Education (also called Report of the Chief Superintendent). Toronto: various printers.
30. Nolan, J., and J. Weiss. 2002. "Learning Cyberspace: An Educational View of Virtual Community." In Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace, edited by A. Renninger and W. Shumar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
31. Pagnol, M. 1986. My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle, Translated by Rita Barisse. San Francisco: North Point Press.
32. Peltier, G. 1991. "Year-Round Education: The Controversy and Research Evidence." NAASP Bulletin (September): 120-129.
33. Phillips, C. E. 1977-1978. The Public School in Ontario. Toronto: monograph.
34. Porter, Reverend. J. Porter Diaries. 1859-1872. Microfilm.
35. Rakoff, T. 1999. "Schooltime". Paper presented at Symposium, A Great Clock of Society: Compulsory Education and the School Calendar. Annual AERA Conference, Montreal, PQ, April 22.
36. Roderick, M., J. Nagaoka, J. Bacon, and J. Q. Easton. 2000. Update: Ending Social Promotion. Chicago: Consortium on Chicago School Research.
37. Rybczynski, W. 1991. Waiting for the Weekend. New York: Viking.
38. Shepard, M. A., and K. Baker. 1977. Year-Round Schools. Lexington, Mass: D. C. Heath and Company.
39. Shields, C., and S. Oberg. 2000. Year-Round Schooling: Promises and Pitfalls. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
40. Stamp, R. M. 1982. The Schools of Ontario, 1876-1976. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
41. State of New York. 1856. Code of Public Instruction of the State of New York. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company.
42. State and City of New York. 1874-1878. Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City and ounty of New York. New York: Board of Education.
43. Stover, D. 1989. "Should Schools Plow Under the Old Agrarian Calendar?" American School Board Journal 176, no. 10. (October): 37.
44. Talbot, M. 2000. "School's Out For Never." New York Times Magazine, 30 July, 15-16.
45. Teixera, R., and C. Bloniarz. 2000. All-Day, All-Year Schools, Century Foundation, Idea Brief No.8. New York: The Foundation.
46. Toronto Board of Education. Minutes of the Management Committee, 1864-1904. Microfilm.
47. Toronto Board of Education. Minutes, Toronto Board of Education, 1849-1913. (Minutes of 1849-1871 in written longhand; minutes of 1871-1874 contained in Annual Report of the Inspector; minutes 1875-1913 in printed volumes).
48. Toronto Board of Education. 1859-1913. Report of the Superintendent/Inspector, Toronto Public Board, 1859-1913. Toronto: Toronto Public School Board.
49. Turkle, S. 1995. Life on the Screen. New York: Simon and Schuster.
50. Twain, M. 1959. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. New York: Harper & Row.
51. Tyack, D., T. James, and A. Benavot. 1987. Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
52. Tyack, D., and W. Tobin. 1994. "The Grammary of Schooling: Why Is It So Hard to Change?" American Educational Research Journal 31 (Fall): 453-79.
53. United States Bureau of Education. 1886. Special Report of the Bureau of Education: Educational Exhibits and Conventions at the Word's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans 1884-85. Washington: Government Printing Office.
54. Valpy, M. 1995a. "The Downside to Year Round Schools." Globe and Mail, 4 January, A3.
55. Valpy, M. 1995b. "The Symposium of School and Community." Globe and Mail, 5, January, A2.
56. Victoria Central School, Brockville. Petition of Victoria Central School, Brockville, to Council of Public Instruction, June 15 1860. Correspondence, Council of Public Instruction.
57. Weiner, R. "When School Is Held on Snow Days." New York Times, 14 March 2001: 15 pars. Online. Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/14/technology/14EDUCATION.html? pagewanted=print.
58. Weiss, J. 1993. Changing Times, Changing Minds: The Consultative Process in Considering Year Round Schooling. Toronto: Queens Printer for Ontario.
59. Weiss, J. 1995. "Was Winston Churchill Wrong? Democracy and Calendar Change". Paper presented at annual conference of Canadian Society for Studies in Education. Montreal, P.Q.
60. Wilgoren, J. 2001. "Calls for Change in the Scheduling of the School Day." New York Times, 10 January, A1, B3.
61. Wilson, D. 1999. "The Utilization of Research and Information in Educational Decision-making: A Case Study of Ontario, Canada." In Educational Documentation, Research and Decision-Making. National Case Studies, edited by W. Rokricka. Paris: UNESCO: International Bureau of Education.
62. Wilson, S. F. 1894. Letter to Hon. G.W. Ross (Minister of ducation), 2 June. Series RG1 2-42.