Internet Sites:
• Using Time Well: Schedules in Essential Schools
Horace, Volume 12, Number 2, November, 1995
This article includes a discussion of the issues surrounding successful implementation of block scheduling and an outline of various block scheduling models, as well as a bibliography of further reading.
http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/15
• Block Scheduling
From the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, University of Minnesota. A comprehensive list of resources including sample schedules, list of schools using block scheduling, bibliography, research, much more.
http://education.umn.edu/carei/blockscheduling/
• Education Policy Analysis Archives – Effects on Students of a 4 X 4 Junior High School Block Scheduling Program
“The effects of a 4 X 4 block scheduling program in a middle school on a variety of student measures were investigated.” From the 1999 Volume 7
Number 3 Issue.
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v7n3.html
• The Case Against Block Scheduling
Jeff Lindsay, Curator
Links to articles and other resources that discuss the disadvantages of block scheduling.
http://www.jefflindsay.com/Block.shtml
• ERIC Digest — Block Scheduling (1996)
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed393156.html
• BlockList
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