The NY Times takes a timely look at the issue, linking it to the view that it can be a solution to the failing schools problem. Seems charter schools can offer some insight here as to how to make it work, either financially (by building school budgets around the idea that more time matters) or logistically (at some point the UFT is going to want to get people to understand how they were cleverly able to stretch out the school day in their charter school without making teachers work longer days.)

I thought it was a good piece, but was lacking a blunt assessment that many schools view the longer day as not just a chance to impart more learning, but to keep kids away from the kinds of anti-intellectual pursuits that can be counter-productive.