In high school, our days were scheduled in blocks. I never went. But the block-scheduling system, sometimes used in junior high or high school programs as an alternative format that mirrors college ...

Administrators took another step in their effort to examine the possibility of modifying the block schedule when they held an open meeting with students on Monday to discuss potential changes. The ...

Jeff Lindsay was a member of a citizens’ group in Appleton, Wis., six years ago when a school administrator came to talk to the group about block scheduling. The concept, which involves changing ...

My child’s school recently switched to a block schedule. Will this benefit her? Traditional schedules have students going to year-long classes every day, usually about six courses for about an hour ...

During a typical semester, students take four or five classes at a time—for example, General Chemistry, Calculus I, and electives. So the professor for, say, General Chemistry doesn’t have students’ ...