1 / 9

Reason vs. Evidence

Reason vs. Evidence. Reason. Contrary to the well-accepted belief, year-round schooling has no constructive impact on education. Evidence. For example, since 1980, 95 percent of schools that tried the year-round schedule changed back to a traditional calendar. . Reason.

soren
Download Presentation

Reason vs. Evidence

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Reason vs. Evidence

  2. Reason Contrary to the well-accepted belief, year-round schooling has no constructive impact on education.

  3. Evidence For example, since 1980, 95 percent of schools that tried the year-round schedule changed back to a traditional calendar.

  4. Reason • Like any other facility, keeping a school open requires a great deal of money.

  5. Evidence • A high school in Arizona had a cost increase of $157,000 when they switched to year round schooling.

  6. Evidence or Reason??? • With year-round schedules, students would hardly have any time to relax.

  7. Evidenceor Reason?? • It would be difficult to coordinate family vacations with parents’ work schedules.

  8. Evidenceor Reason?? • Children would not be able to go to most summer camps because they would be in school.

  9. Evidenceor Reason?? • Dr. Peter Scales says, “The biggest plus of summer camp is that camps help young people discover and explore their talents, interests and values. Kids who have access to these kinds of camp experiences end up being healthier and have fewer problems.”

More Related