A voluntary physical education program was initiated at Rutgers University. (EL)

Describes the Wilson Campus School at Mankato State College, Minnesota, a year-round school allowing flexible scheduling, free choice, voluntary attendance, and easy access to educational resources. (LR)

The Research Institute of Evening Schools in Leningrad is experimenting with a variety of forms of teaching and scheduling to meet students' particular needs: accelerated programs, differentiated training, or short sessions of full-time study combined with correspondence courses. (MF)

Discusses the various problems encountered when scheduling examination timetables and a means for overcoming them using a computer-based examination management system to provide the registrar with an analysis and feedback to eliminate conflicts. The system uses color-coding to produce blocks of nonconflicting examinations. (EAO)

Scheduling guidelines for teachers of severely handicapped students include that instruction should be activity-based and that interaction with nonhandicapped peers should be maximized. Characteristics of the students (physical limitations, age, and reinforcing activities) and of administration (necessary daily activities, personnel, regular…

Examines the concept of positioning, which is the way that individuals perceive and are made aware of a program and believe in its benefit to them and its application to cooperative education programs. Includes a five-step plan for assessing the position of cooperative programs and six ways to implement a positioning strategy. (JOW)

Discusses "intensive scheduling" as an alternative to the concurrent method of arranging high school students' classes. Defines intensive scheduling as the placing of students into one class for three or four hours a day for four or five weeks. (FL)

Describes a computer-assisted scheduling algorithm for college courses and faculty. The method considers such issues as availability of lecturers, preferred times for courses, and time conflicts. Samples of the schedules are included. (JJD)

Presents time management tips, especially for board of education members, including recommendations to realize that managing time is a skill, develop a more accurate sense of how one's time is spent, examine and reestablish goals, learn to say no, organize files and information, and master the telephone. (Author/JM)

The preventive maintenance program for Oakland (California) public schools has full-time traveling teams of carpenters, painters, and a plumber, augmented by electricians and glaziers. Scheduled visits are made to every site twice a year. (Author/MLF)

Relates how a college newspaper began publishing on Saturdays to fill the local publication void on that day. (RL)