Commentary: California has been slow to adopt the four-day school week. That could be a good thing
How do you make four equal five? That’s a question many Americans are asking as they ponder the future of the time-honored five-day school week. As alluring as a calendar filled with three-day weekends may seem, research shows that short school weeks can have educational and health risks for students, but also benefits for them and for school districts that make the change.
In California, a bill has been shelved, for now, that would have shortened the
