Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
From Chris Gabrieli
The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.
Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.
I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.
You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.
An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of the people running for office, but it's not in fact disputed.
There are very few people who have had as much public impact as I've already had... without being elected to public office in Massachusetts.
Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.
Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society.
Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled only by elite private schools and those in the most upscale suburbs.
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