The School Calendar

When do students go to school, and why? This week, the hosts tackle the origins of the school calendar, its agrarian roots and the urban compromise, and the question of the ideal school calendar. How did we get the long summer break? Why do we measure school in days? Hours? Minutes? Seconds? Kate explores the celebration of Juneteenth, and Chelsea goes spelunking in the local public library (again).State Education Reforms- list by state hour/dayODE Minimum HoursODE School SchedulesWikipedia School Holidays in the USWikipedia First Day of SchoolWikipedia Gregorian CalendarThe Organization of School Time in EuropeWikipedia JuneteenthPBS "The Myth of Summer"The Atlantic - "Fixing America's Broken School Calendar"Wikipedia History of Education in the US