For the past five years Phoenix Union High School System students indicated the courses they wished to take, then a computer built the class schedule and placed students in those courses without regard to the period or teacher that they wanted. In 1972, an approach that has been common for many years at the university level was tried. Basically it…

Discusses what modular or flexible scheduling is and evaluates its advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls. Includes abstracts of eleven documents that provide additional information from implemented programs and from various experiences and points of view of teacher, parents, and students. (RB)