Write a debate speech for or against the motion "Schools Should Have a Five Day Week."
(6 Marks)
In your speech, you should
1. introduce yourself and take a position for or against the motion
2. give reasons for your position
3. say whether such a move will be welcomed by schools, parents and exam boards
4. suggest how an additional day off from school will benefit/harm students
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Answer:
We found these descriptions to be unsatisfactory. It allowed for too many other factors that could influence student performance, other than a district’s decision to switch schedules.
For example, if the four-day schedule were adopted in school districts where scores were already going up, the existing trend would confound the effect of the schedule change.
We were not able to do a large-scale experiment whereby we could assign some children to four-day schedules and some others to traditional schedules to examine the impact. But we did the next best thing.
A four-day week was seen to have a positive impact on reading and math scores. US Department of Education
We gathered data over time for schools that had adopted a four-day week and then we chose a “matched” sample of schools that had stuck with a traditional five-day week.
The schools were “matched” in terms of size and school characteristics, as well as socioeconomic characteristics such as ethnicity and free- and reduced-lunch enrollment.