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School's Out, Again

其他書名	Why "throw Away" School Days Hurt Students
出版	Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, 2010
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ryFwAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A careful analysis of the impact of "Throw-away Days" in Nova Scotia and neighbouring Atlantic provinces demonstrates that the high incidence of such disruptions can exact "collateral damage" on students as well as the public school system. [...] Addressing the problem in Nova Scotia and the other Atlantic provinces calls for provincial action to establish a minimum number of teaching days, to provide improved roadway snow clearing in school transportation zones, and to ensure that schools remain open in all but the severest of weather. [...] April 2010 School Storm Days - The Public Controversy The long winter of 2008-09 was one of the worst in the Maritimes, but it may have been what was needed to break the relative silence over the increasing incidence of "storm days" in public education. [...] Yet it was part of a larger and longer term pattern of a gradual and marked increase in the number of school days lost to storm closures in Nova Scotia and, to some extent, the other Atlantic provinces. [...] Back in 1971, the NS Education Department increased the number of in the school calendar from 190 to 195, to recognize and accommodate an average of five days lost per year.