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Direct linkChilders, Gary L.; Ireland, Rebecca Weeks – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
In Boone, North Carolina, Watauga High School has developed an alternative schedule that blends traditional and block schedules. This composite schedule originated in the late 1990s when their faculty members and administrators were struggling to determine if the school should change to a full block schedule. The board of education encouraged…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Block Scheduling, High Schools, Student Diversity
Lines, Patricia M. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
Home-based programs provide opportunities at a level far beyond what a traditional public school program can offer. To stem enrollment losses to homeschooling, or simply to help families interested in home-based option, public schools are enrolling children and sending them home, where they follow the school's curriculum under their parents'…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Home Study, Home Schooling, Parents as Teachers
