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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Main Authors: Cruz, Tassia, Loureiro, Andre, Sa, Eduardo
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Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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spelling okr-10986-272862021-06-08T14:42:47Z Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro Cruz, Tassia Loureiro, Andre Sa, Eduardo SCHOOL DAY FULL-TIME SCHOOL STUDENT PERFORMANCE STUDENT LEARNING DROPOUT RATES 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. 2017-06-21T15:54:18Z 2017-06-21T15:54:18Z 2017-06 Working Paper 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8086 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Brazil
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STUDENT PERFORMANCE
STUDENT LEARNING
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Cruz, Tassia
Loureiro, Andre
Sa, Eduardo
Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro
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description 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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Loureiro, Andre
Sa, Eduardo
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title Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro
title_short Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro
title_full Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro
title_fullStr Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro
title_full_unstemmed Full-Time Teachers, Students, and Curriculum : The Single-Shift Model in Rio de Janeiro
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