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Block Scheduling

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Block scheduling, or blocking, is a way of organizing the school day used in some American K-12 schools, in which students attend fewer but longer classes each day than under a traditional period-based schedule. It is more common in middle and high schools than in elementary schools. In one common form a single class meets every day for a stretch of days before another class takes its place; in another form, the classes a student attends rotate through a repeating daily cycle. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Core Claim
Under block scheduling a school day is organized into fewer, longer class periods rather than many short ones, changing how much time each subject receives on a given day. 1
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Education Level
Upper Secondary Education (ISCED 3) 1
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1. Block scheduling (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_scheduling, lead paragraph (Wikipedia REST summary extract)
    Block scheduling or blocking is a type of academic scheduling used in some schools in the American K-12 system, in which students have fewer but longer classes per day than in a traditional academic schedule.
  • Description, education-level classification
    It is more common in middle and high schools than in elementary schools.
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