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Download full textWerth, Eric; Williams, Katherine; Werth, Lori – Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
To aid students during COVID-19, the University of Pikeville transitioned all undergraduate classes to no-cost alternatives for course textbooks. Additionally, the academic calendar was modified for the first time in the institution's 130-year history from a traditional 16- week semester to 8-week block scheduling. This case study explores…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Distance Education, Online Courses, Universities
Direct linkCrawford, Marilyn – Phi Delta Kappan, 2008
The largest issue for schools is not extending the school day or year--as useful as those policies might be--but of meeting time requirements within the constraints of the budgets and personnel given them. Policy makers rarely understand how their policies impact practice. Author Marilyn Crawford suggests a policy-talks-to-practice strategy that…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Federal Programs, Budgeting, Retrenchment
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2011
Corbin High School is located in a small, rural community of approximately 8,000 residents in southeastern Kentucky, midway between Lexington and Knoxville, Tennessee. The mission of Corbin High School is to provide opportunities that will help each student prepare for a successful transition to college, the workplace and life. This report…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, High Schools, Rural Schools
Clark, Carrie; Hunley, Allen – Principal Leadership, 2007
Regardless of where they live, incoming freshmen face the same problems nationwide, such as anxiety about entering a new school, social pressure, and increased academic pressure and responsibility. Freshman academies have been introduced in many larger schools to offset these issues. A typical freshman academy isolates freshmen from the rest of…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Grants, Federal Aid, Rural Schools
Peer reviewedSmith, Douglas C. – Business Education Forum, 2002
Business teachers who are also Future Business Leaders of America advisors (65 with block scheduling, 19 without) perceive block scheduling differently in their roles as teachers and as advisors. Although they support it as teachers, they have serious reservations as advisors because of its impact on student organizations. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Faculty Advisers
Peer reviewedBaker, Andrew J.; Bowman, Ken – Rural Educator, 2000
A study examined 177 Kentucky secondary agriculture teachers' attitudes toward block scheduling based on teaching experience. Results indicate that less experienced teachers viewed block scheduling more favorably than experienced teachers, and all respondents agreed that block scheduling had a positive impact on teaching strategies and classroom…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Block Scheduling, Educational Change, Extracurricular Activities
