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…

The purpose of this "Handbook" is to bolster the effective implementation of the intervention models and strategies outlined in the "2010 School Improvement Grant" (SIG) program--section 1003(g) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--in order to achieve the program's clear goal--rapid improvement of persistently…

The purpose of this study was to better understand occupational turnover among librarians and archivists by examining the careers of individuals who have left or intend to leave the profession, in order to identify the factors associated with turnover, and to discover the career outcomes of those who leave. The dissertation analyzes a subset of…

The Higher Education Technical Corrections (Public Law 111-39) was put in place to make technical corrections to the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: (1) Sec. 1. Table of contents; (2) Sec. 2. References; and (3) Sec. 3. Effective date. (A) Title I--General Provisions: (4) Sec.…

Following up on the general framework of the research study of Yip (2007), this article sets out a similar research question, investigating the differences between high and low academic achieving Hong Kong university students based on their different learning and study strategies. In this study, we recruited 100 university students who pursued…

This report is an excerpt from the National Education Commission On Time and Learning Final Report, "Prisoners of Time," published in April, 1994. In it, the Commission concludes that the reform movement of the last decade is destined to founder unless it is able to harness more time, and better management thereof, for learning. The…

Secondary school administrators must carefully consider the ramifications of a proposed alternative scheduling plan before proceeding with implementation. The first article in this newsletter presents findings from a study that compared data from two groups of schools (one group with a 4 X 4 block plan and the other with a trimester plan) to data…

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 paper reports on a Missouri study that compared block scheduling to traditional schedules in small high schools (schools with fewer than 500 students in grades 9 to 12). The study focused on small-school administrator and teacher perceptions of the effects of block scheduling on student achievement, school climate, and teacher methodology.…

Section 709 of the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 mandates shared scheduled positions in certain residency programs in institutions receiving federal aid. A survey of hospitals, undertaken just prior to the law's enactment, to determine the availability of options for less than full-time training is reported. (JMD)

Discussion of the introduction of block scheduling in high schools highlights two case studies that illustrate how a schedule change impacts the library media program. Shows how the library media specialists modified teaching and scheduling practices to take advantage of the extended instructional time. (Author/LRW)

A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WAS INITIATED TO SHOW THE FEASIBILITY OF INTRODUCING GREATER FLEXIBILITY INTO VOCATIONAL CURRICULUMS AND INTO THE PREVOCATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF NONVOCATIONAL CURRICULUMS THROUGH THE USE OF A COMPUTER-BASED SCHEDULING TECHNOLOGY. RESEARCH WAS PLANNED TO COVER A 3-YEAR PERIOD. THE 1ST YEAR'S RESEARCH WAS COMPLETED MAY 1, 1966,…

Two programs are described which have been used successfully to solve the assistant/teaching assignment scheduling problem in a large teaching department at a State University. (Author)

Guidelines are given for arranging for guest speaking engagements by authors and illustrators. Included are suggestions on protocol; publisher's and host's responsibilities; arranging advance publicity; financial arrangements; hotel accommodations; and establishing initial contact with potential guest speakers. (JPF)

Describes a dynamic scheduler program that provides for preregistration of students and also gives the university administration options to change class loads prior to the final scheduling. The student is given the various options that he had under a manual system for both priority and substitution. (Author/IRT)