1.0link73004<![CDATA[The Case for a Longer School Year (and What Conservatives Can Do About It)]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-lampkin/the-case-for-a-longer-sch_b_73004.htmlWhat I'm about to say may not make me popular with my kids, or those jokers who produce after-school cartoons, but I'm going to say it anyway -- America needs to rethink the amount of time our students spend in school.
More than half of the freshmen admitted to the California State University system in 2006 had to take remedial math or English courses. Most of them were among the top third of high school graduates in the state and had...