Secondary schools throughout the nation are fashioning creative alter natives to traditional six and seven-period days, in the form of block- of-time schedules. Although varying tremendously in format, block-of- time schedules have an overarching commonality: They significantly depart from the traditional 45 to 55-minute class period.
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