Florida told its low-scoring schools to make their days longer. It helped, new research finds

Last year, Camille Watkins’s day as a fourth grade teacher got a little longer.

The elementary school where she taught had been named one of Florida’s 300 lowest-performing schools. That meant the school was required to add an extra hour of reading instruction to the day, something Watkins found grueling.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2018/08/16/florida-longer-school-day-study/