Question

Which sentence should be removed from the conclusion?

(1) Year-round schooling would help student achievement. (2) Not so much information would have to be crammed into nine months. (3) Furthermore, the elimination of long breaks, particularly summer break, would significantly reduce "learning loss” and the additional time wasted at the beginning of each academic year to reteach previously learned material. (4) It is clear that year-round schooling helps students learn and retain more. (5) The United States is not the only country to experiment with a year-round school schedule. (6) Although many still claim that evidence about year-round school and its link to higher achievement is inconclusive, these people need to open their eyes and see that students in these schools consistently score higher on certain assessments than students who attend schools with traditional nine-month calendars. (7) It is about time that we replaced our outdated and inefficient school calendars.

sentence 1
sentence 3
sentence 5
sentence 7

Answer 1

5, since it doesn't go on to speak of other countries and the sentence doesn't support anything stated, it is insignificant.

Answer 2

Sentece 5: The United States is not the only country to experiment with a year-round school schedule.

Step-by-step explanation:

The focus the conclusion takes is on the provision of evidence that implementing a year-round schedule on schools which still allow for long breaks would maintain education quality and avoid "learning loss" due to students' disconnection from school during holidays.

However, the conclusion doesn't pass onto comparison with other countries; it rather keeps the focus on the United States. Sentece 5 should not be included in this text given this lack of comparison.