When reflcting back on the educational reform movement of the 1990s, many middle level and high school principals summarize the change process in two words: block scheduling. The proliferation of articles and books on block-of-time scheduling models attests to the fact that there has been an almost meteoric rise in the number of schools using this approach.
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