Classroom crisis: It's about time

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 592-595

  Meek, Claudia ^a  

^a Bautista Creek Elementary School   (United States)

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EID: 25844530293     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308400809     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. "The Message Behind the Votes," Los Angeles Times, 8 March 2000, p. A-20.
2. California Association of School Business Officials, Education Code, October 2000, section 11.21:46112.
3. Claudia Meek, "The Scoop on Schools: It's About Time" (Doctoral dissertation, American World University, 2001). Each of the six data logs generated from the 1999-2000 school year is unique. For instance, the first log reflects several large blocks of ongoing time absorbers, such as solving classroom disputes. Such interruptions were factored in at 10 minutes per day in a 180-day year. Likewise, morning announcements, housekeeping tasks, and bells that stop the flow of instruction are factored in at 20 minutes per day. Other logs simply record assemblies, fundraisers, disaster drills, and so on as they occurred throughout the year.
4. Ibid., p. 40.
5. Time Spent Teaching Core Academic Subjects in Elementary Schools: Comparisons Across Community, School, Teacher, and Student Characteristics (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, Statistical Analysis Report, February 1997), pp. 8-10.
6. Ibid., pp. 12-13.
7. State Mandated Instruction Time by Subject. Information supplied to teachers by Hemet Unified School District, Hemet, California, 1990s to present. Each teacher is required to submit a detailed plan for instructional minutes at the beginning of the school year that reflects mandated minutes per academic subject. State department of education officials say that minutes are suggested, not mandated.