Dear Editor:
I see that Huntley Project Schools has decided to throw in the towel on education moving to a four-day school week. I agree with Tim Ley not being convinced that this is in the best interest of students. In fact, this is part of a further degradation in rigor in our public schools in general. I was one of the better students in my day, but I was really unprepared fully for college at a serious university as a freshman. I would like to know how education levels and higher expectations of achievement in real subjects like reading, writing, and arithmetic are enhanced by these types of changes. I doubt they are.
When I was a professor in New Jersey and listened to all the complaining American students about the homework required and the actual education that was needed, I decided to teach the point. In my class were several Asian students. Some were from Korea and a few from China. I asked the Asians read more
