EXTENDED DAY SCHOOL IN PRIMARY EDUCATION THE CASE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BUENOS AIRES CITY

Authors

  • Cecilia Adrogué de Deane

Keywords:

Extended school day, Public schools, Natural experiment, City of Buenos Aires

Abstract

In 1971 the school day was extended for around halve of the primary schools of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since the schools were chosen at random, this gave place to a natural experiment. In the years 2006 and 2007, an ad-hoc database was developed thirty years after the graduation of the students in 1977, both from simple shift as from double shift schools. The main results obtained suggest that the students that attended double shift schools had a secondary graduation rate 21% higher than those that attended single shift ones, but this result dilutes at tertiary level and post- tertiary level, since both positive and negative impacts were found for students that had graduated from double shift schools. These last results, together with the lack of lasting effects on income and employment and on the fact that students that attended double shift schools do not have a better knowledge of a foreign language in spite of having had it at school, suggest that the quality of the contents and the teaching was not that good in these schools.

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Published

2017-03-28

How to Cite

Adrogué de Deane, C. (2017). EXTENDED DAY SCHOOL IN PRIMARY EDUCATION THE CASE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN BUENOS AIRES CITY. Pilquen Magazine. Psychopedagogy Section, 12(1), 14–26. Retrieved from https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/psico/article/view/1489