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Archive Home > 2012 > August > 06 > To increase learning, some schools add days to their academic year

To increase learning, some schools add days to their academic year

By Motoko Rich / The Bulletin
August 6, 2012

PHOENIX — It was the last Sunday in July, and Bethany and Garvin Phillips were pulling price tags off brand-new backpacks and stuffing them with binders and pencils.

While other children around the country readied for beach vacations or the last weeks of summer camp, Bethany, 11, and Garvin, 9,....

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