Mission
The National Center on Time & Learning is dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well-rounded education, with a focus on children living in poverty.
Through research, public policy and technical assistance, we support national, state and local initiatives that add significantly more school time for academic and enrichment opportunities to help all children meet the demands of the 21st century.
Vision
In ten years at least one million children in high poverty communities will attend schools that have redesigned their school day to expand learning time to support academic improvement and offer a well rounded education. In combination with other education improvement efforts, such as those targeting teacher effectiveness and use of data, these expanded time schools will cut the achievement gap, reduce drop-out rates and build beliefs and habits key to long-term educational and employment success. Furthermore, in ten years redesigned schools with longer school days and years, serving high poverty students, will be well on the way to becoming the norm, not an experiment, in American education.
Mass 2020 and NCTL are nonprofit organizations based in Boston.
Mass 2020 focuses its efforts in Massachusetts and is currently leading the country’s most ambitious initiative to rethink what a public school means by adding significantly more learning time to the school day and year.
www.mass2020.org
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