Morgan Sweeney, the writer of “Schools Finding Problems with Longer School Years, Extended Class Time.”, discusses whether increasing the school year may have positive or negative effects in students academic achievement. Sweeney states that NCSL’s survey of the research finds “no conclusive proof it’s effective overall”. She provides an example of economist Caroline Hoxby whom studied New York charter schools, she found they were “more effective than traditional schools in closing achievement gaps.” Hoxby also claimed that the “strongest predictor of high student performance among charter schools was a longer school year.” Sweeney
