Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro
This paper examines the full-time school program in Rio de Janeiro's municipal schools. The program, called as the "Single-Shift" schools (Turno Unico), extends the time students spend in municipal schools and seeks to improve the qu...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/675871496683432879/Full-time-teachers-students-and-curriculum-the-single-shift-model-in-Rio-de-Janeiro http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27286 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the full-time school
program in Rio de Janeiro's municipal schools. The
program, called as the "Single-Shift" schools
(Turno Unico), extends the time students spend in municipal
schools and seeks to improve the quality of education
provision by creating a diverse curriculum for the use of
the extra time in school. Unlike the model prevalent in most
Brazilian public schools, in which the school day is divided
in two shifts of four to five hours each, Single-Shift
schools provide education in a format in which students
attend a seven-hour daily shift. A subset of Single-Shift
schools was certified when they included aspects such as
having all teaching staff fully dedicated to a single
school. Difference-in-differences estimates, including
school and time fixed effects, as well as restrictive
school-by-time controls, indicate sizable and robust
positive results for the certified Single-Shift program in
middle schools. The results indicate that just extending the
school day does not grant positive impacts on student
performance if it is not also coupled with a more
comprehensive and careful consideration on how the
additional school hours are used and organized, which
requires a well-structured and integrated curriculum,
teachers fully dedicated to one school, and focused teacher training. |
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