General Links

National Association of Year Round Education (NAYRE)

The NAYRE website promotes year-round education and contains detailed definitions of year round education, statistics, research projects and links to numerous year-round school districts.

Year Round Education: Pros and Cons

This site is a forum for grade 7-12 educators. One article weighs the pros and cons and leans towards the need for more objective research.

YRS Can Cure Much of What Ails Us

This link contains a pro year-round school article that advocates a 52 week school year and is written by Molly A. Carrol, who also sits on the board of NAYRE.

Time to Learn Organization

This organization and its website lobby against the adoption of year-round education.

Listing of Year Round School Articles on ERIC

This site lists year round school articles on ERIC (a databank of education literature sponsored by the US Department of Education) and how to order them and also contains links to other year-round school sites.

Year Round Education by E. Palmer and A. Bemls

This academic document reviews the strengths and weaknesses of year-round school research and other publications and tends to be in favour of it.

Parent/Citizen Groups

YRS Stopped in Auburn, Alabama

This website details the extensive fight by a grass-roots citzens' group and the various information sources and reports they used to win their fight..

Anti-YRE Letter to the School Board

This site basically is a letter by a parent to the Hawaii School Board of Education that details the cons of year round education and possible alternatives to it.

School District Links

Socorro Independent School District

This site is provides information on the overall success of year round education in a school district in El Paso County, Texas.

Is Year-Round Scheduling the Answer?

This article by a school administrator weighs the pros and cons of year round education and tends to be in favour of it.

Washoe County School District

This site from a school district in Reno, Nevada contains an informative FAQ (frequently asked questions) about the implementation process of YRE.

Can YRSs Improve Student's Learning

This opinion piece by a West Virginia Board member promotes the idea of changing to the YRS calendar.

Sacramento City Unifed School District

This site lists the year round schools in this district along with contact information and accountability reports.

Newspaper and Media Articles

How would all-year schooling affect tourism?

This Capital District Business Review article details the negative effects of YRS on the tourism/hospitality industry.

Other Reports

Year-Round Education by M. Bradish

This paper details the process and hurdles involved in enacting the year-round school system and overall tends to be in favour of it.

Effectiveness of YRSs

This is a transcript of an interview done with Sherry Rauh (CNN education reporter) and overall tends to be supportive of YRS.

B.C. Teachers' Federation (BCTF)

This site provides links to BCTF research reports that tend to critique pro year-round education research from university scholars, NAYRE and the government.