July 23rd, 2009 by El Ed Mom

Debate homework’s merits all you want, but compare our typical 180-day school year with Israel’s 216 and Japan’s 243, and its significance is hard to dispute. Then layer that with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s study of forty industrialized nations, and again we come up short. Thailand’s students log in 30.5 school hours every week, followed by Korea with 30.3 hours and China with 26.9 hours. Then comes America, ranking thirty-sixth with 22.2 hours a week—and for only 180 days. That’s simply not enough—certainly not to get the job done right.

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