Should School Days Be Longer? Opinion 3

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2009/04/27/to-fix-education-school-hours-and-money-need-to-be-better-spent

Frederick M. Hess, the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Tough Love for Schools, disagrees that more necessarily means better. In his opinion, lengthening school days would require a lot more money being spent on paying teachers and to schools in general, although it may not show much improvements in students' performances. He believes that more time isn't really the issue, but just how much quality is going into each school day is what really makes a difference, and that adding more time except with the same quality won't bring out much benefit. Therefore, he believes that if this is the case, students won't benefit from the "tedium" and that it will "disrupt fruitful activities for millions of youths who have rewarding lives after 3 o'clock."