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The rise of the four-day school week

 

Some of the things that would normally happen at school spill out.
*uptick 약간의 증가
*prevalence [ prévələns(i) ] 널리 퍼짐, 유행, 보급; 우세, 유력
These are places where we see kind of upticks in the prevalence of juvenile crime during that off day.
They often do a little worse in those subjects.
We see declines in standardized testing achievement for math and reading.
Reductions in achievement lead to lower productivity,
*down the line 미래에, 나중에
Higher obesity rates, higher health care costs down the line which leads to higher taxes.
*twist 반전 
There is a surprising little twist here.
*take a hit 타격을 입다
Student achievement does not always have to take a hit in four-day-school-week districts.
*tack on 늘어나다, 부가하다
They will usually tack on extra instruction time to the end of the four remaining school days to meet state requirement.
That's one way you can do it.
Gregg doesn't put a ton of weight on that.
There's just a lot more to school than a test given one time of year.
*trade- off (서로 대립되는 요소 사이의) 균형, 반대급부 / 대가 / 얻으면 잃게 되는 것, 상호 절충
You do have trade-offs.
I want you to put yourself in the shoes of any old district that doesn't have enough teachers.
*one thing and[or] another 이것저것, 이런저런
This could potentially impact one thing or another.
*undercut 저렴하게 판매하다, 약화시키다
There's something happening already that is starting to undercut the four-day school week as a recruitment tool.
*put oneself in the shoes of ~의 입장에서 자신을 생각하다
I want you to put yourself in the shoes of just, like, any old district that doesn't have enough teachers.
Contagion effects- That's what it's been called.
Paul says schools lose their competitive advantage.
*monetary [ mʌnɪteri ] 통화[화폐]의, 금전상의
They're choosing over what monetary benefit schools are offering, right?

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Facing teacher shortages and struggling to fill vacant spots, they are finding a new recruitment tool: the four-day school week. Those districts are saying to teachers, "You can have three-day weekends all the time, and we won't cut your pay." As of this fall, around 900 school districts – that's about 7% of all districts in the U.S. – now have school weeks that are just four days long.

And this isn't the first time a bunch of schools have scaled back to four days, so there is a lot of data to lean on to figure out how well it works. In this episode, teachers love the four-day school week, and it turns out even parents love it, too. 

 

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The rise of the four-day school week

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