Common Sense

Time to Learn - An Extended Learning Time Summit, took place in Boston on December 4-5, 2008. The mission of MASS2020 is to advocate for an expanded learning day that includes the necessary time and programming to achieve a better, more well-rounded education. I photographed an impressive tour of an elementary school in Revere where teachers, students and administrators talked to the successes and challenges they have faced as a pilot program.

The following day included a conference of panel discussions, keynote speakers and hands-on workshops. In all of the non-profits that I document and work for, I can't think of one solution that could solve more problems, at their route cause, than the incorporation of the ELT into the public school system as a whole. I can't see how this model doesn't take hold in the near future.