Friday, March 5, 2010

Later start times/ higher SAT scores

From an editorial in the PG:

"When Edina, Minn., changed its high school start from 7:25 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., math/verbal SAT scores rose substantially."

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10064/1040375-109.stm#ixzz0hMRhQw28

- It's probably worth a try! But not district wide- start with a school or two. So often relatively untested programs and ideas are put into place on a large scale even though many mistakes can be avoided by learning from a small pilot program.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I heard from another parent that Allderdice was no longer a site for SAT testing. I think it might have had something to do with the size of work space.

Try anything to improve performance.

Anonymous said...

Last year, 'Dice was a testing site for one or two of the SAT test dates. Peabody and Central were the popular sites for our kids.