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How Can School Affect Your Health?

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How Can School Affect Your Health? The skills acquired through education can affect health indirectly (through better jobs and earnings) or directly (through ability to follow health care regimens and manage diseases), and they can affect the ability of patients to navigate the health system, such as knowing how to get reimbursed by a health

Do Longer School Days Improve Test Scores?

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Do Longer School Days Improve Test Scores? Do longer school days improve test scores? Research on the academic impact of longer school days is mixed. The Massachusetts Department of Education conducted a study in 2006-07 and found that increasing the school day by 25 percent resulted in an improvement in test scores of 5-10 percent.