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School systems across Northern Virginia are — grudgingly, in some cases — joining a Amy White Edgar B. Hatrick III Emma Brown Luke Chung michael hairston Morton Sherman National Council on Teacher Quality Richard Moniuszko Steven Greenburg student acheivement and teacher evaluations teacher evaluations
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ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL officials think that their efforts to boost student achievement would be helped if the school year got off to an earlier start.
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The research, however, is inconclusive. Harris Cooper, a psychology professor at Duke University who has studied school calendars, said the most important issue is how the hours are spent.
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