School officials have tried various scheduling strategies to strengthen curriculums. One such strategy, block scheduling, affected the operation of Portsmouth High School, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This status report examines the use of block scheduling over a 2.5 year period and focuses on how this change influenced people, curriculum, test…

This document deals with the Images component of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University. The component was designed to organize, evaluate and utilize an understanding of the world. The program is described in relation to history and time constraints, goals, students, faculty, implementation and assumptions, general…

This document describes the Science Cluster College (SCC), a part of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University. The SCC offered a science seminar, survey courses, and laboratory work. The seminar emphasized creative aspects of scientific activity, the nature of scientific knowledge, inductive and deductive logic,…

This progress report describes the activities and summarizes the evaluation of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University for the 1972-73 academic year. Emphasis is placed on the general education component, the structure of MAP in its position within the University, a profile of the MAP student, student development,…

Discusses the possibilities of a kind of educational contracting where the student seeks and secures the teaching service and experiences he desires. (JS)

This document evaluates the counseling aspect of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University. Following a review of the overall functions and activities, the programs relationship with MAP component programs is discussed. Related documents are HE 005 102, 005 083, 005 078, 005 082, 005 081, 005 101, 005 077, and 005…

The communications component of the Modular Achievement Program (MAP) at Bowling Green State University is discussed in three phases. Part one offers an evaluative synthesis of Speech 102. Part two deals primarily with the speech component of the module and part three briefly discusses the modular attempts at integration. Related documents are HE…

The Flexible Campus Program, the author believes, has given Boston's schools system-wide innovation by offering real curriculum alternatives and meaningful, supervised, career and future-oriented'' learning opportunities that draw on community resources. (Editor)

Describes Pope John Central High School in Elgin, Nebraska, one of the most innovative secondary schools in the state. (CB)

The traditional approaches and structures of career programs must be made more relevant to students whose primary aim is obtaining a decent, satisfying job upon graduation. Educational innovations have represented an elitist view, and the aspirations of the "new students" from low-income and/or minority groups to obtain jobs that are not demeaning…

For many years, St. Louis Community College at Meramec has offered two distinct sets of foreign language courses: day and evening credit courses on elementary and intermediate levels and noncredit, adult evening classes on elementary I and II levels. The 10-week adult courses were usually taught by part-time instructors, although full-time faculty…

During its first year 1972-73, the project was concerned with total implementation of an innovative plan for scheduling high school classes--the Trimester/Modular Scheduling Plan and inservice education for teachers to help them update their teaching strategies and adapt them to the classtime allotments of the new scheduling plan. Four of the…

Reviews documents available in the ERIC system which describe innovative and easily accessible lifelong learning programs in relation to policies affecting lifelong learning, educational information centers, cooperative arrangements with business, flexible scheduling, informing the public, and experiential learning. (JM)

The final report describes a project at the Florida State University at the end of its third year and an assessment of the degree to which project goals were attained. The project goals were to: (1) establish mastery standards for degree programs; (2) create open, time-variable educational programs; (3) verify that the program product can serve as…