Education Week: More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects, Study Finds

Published Online: February 20, 2008
Source;  http://www.edweek.org/
More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects, Study Finds
By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
Most of the nation’s elementary schools have added at least 75 minutes of instruction time in reading and mathematics each week—and often twice that amount—in the five years since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, but many did so by skimming that time from the teaching of science, social studies, the arts, recess, and physical education.