Sentence examples for block schedules from inspiring English sources

Another reason, in addition to testing, that districts are beginning the year earlier is to accommodate so-called block schedules, in which a high school student might take a year's worth of chemistry in the first semester and a year's worth of history in the same slot in the second semester.

It felt exciting to be talking almost simultaneously to three people at colleges hundreds of miles apart, all of us intelligently discussing such topics as the philosophy behind women's colleges, co-op work programs and block schedules, where you take one class at a time intensively.

It is also possible to observe that in each case of S b max, Set Scheduling outperforms Block by Block Scheduling by up to 8percentt observed at a value of R b max = 6, 000 kbps.

Even some populist legislators say they will not block scheduled privatisations.

"We've seen lots of schools back away from block schedule," said Dick Flanary of the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Block scheduling became popular among public schools about a decade ago, but it ran smack into an increasing emphasis on standards and testing.

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Mr Davis has promised to block scheduled tax rate reductions, but hasn't said whether those already in place would be rolled back.

The Kings Park superintendent, Mary DeRose, said Kings Park High School's "block scheduling," where different subjects are scheduled on successive days rather than successive periods, would force students to attend Cultural Arts full time.

But nationwide, over the last decade, thousands of public schools have moved to a "block schedule," in which students have four long periods a day, skipping some subjects, instead of eight short periods meeting each day in each subject.

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