The term "alternative work schedules" encompasses any variation of the requirement that all permanent employees in an organization or one shift of employees adhere to the same five-day, seven-to-eight-hour schedule. This article defines staggered hours, flexible working hours (flexitour and gliding time), compressed work week, the task system, and…

It was concluded that placement of tri-weekly training sessions is not critical with respect to enhancement of aerobic capacity in college-age males. (MJB)

Introduces a computer program for school bus routing. (MLF)

Featured in the third article of the series are management techniques for school insurance record management and for reducing the amount of time school maintenance personnel spend driving from school to school. (Author/MLF)

Tells how a college yearbook staff uses the computer as an aid in four staff functions: recruiting new yearbook staff members, scheduling the taking of class pictures, indexing, and making fall yearbook deliveries to seniors who have been graduated. (GW)

Describes ten items of business that the yearbook staff should attend to between the time it meets its final deadline and the end of the school year, in order to complete the work on the current yearbook and to start planning for the following year. (GW)

Tells how a high school yearbook staff was able to continue working on yearbook production during a six-week closure of their school due to funding problems. (GW)

Pressure to reduce budgets has prompted persons responsible for school maintenance to schedule cleaning some areas on alternate days rather than daily. (MLF)

Academic/administrative data processing is centralized in one computer facility at East Tennessee State University. Students check computer printouts listing course availability, fill out one schedule card, present it to an operator at a computer terminal, and are able to register for classes in less than a minute. (Author/MLF)

Two mutually supporting computer programs for scheduling final examinations are described. One checks quickly for conflicts in course combinations for examination times, and the other generates a complete, conflict-free exam schedule with appropriate room sizes and types. (MSE)

Advises educators to stop peering through the rearview mirror of first-wave reform aimed at increasing accountability and raising standards, and confront the second wave's exciting new agenda featuring individual schools as decision-makers, a more collegial, personalized school environment, flexible time use, and an emphasis on higher-order…

The author describes the open-ended vocational programming being used at the Maryland Correctional Training Center. The programs are competency-based and feature a Student Competency Profile Record that helps instructors know what competencies a student already possesses. (CH)

This author recommends a comprehensive evalution of education construction projects 11 months following their substantial completion, when users have had sufficient time to identify true weaknesses, original intentions have not been forgotten, shortcomings in materials or the construction process will have appeared, and one year warranties have…

Describes the following aspects of the State University of New York-Brockport's preventive maintenance computerization project: (1) software selection, (2) project implementation; and (3) problems and benefits of the system. (MCG)

Discusses and makes recommendations concerning the quality use of available school time. Focuses on administrative scheduling for maximum classroom time; teacher management of classroom time for maximum instructional time; teacher planning of instruction for maximum student time on task; and teacher creativity. Provides an instrument for…