Block Scheduling and Advanced Placement Mathematics: When Tradition and Reform Collide.

Howard, Elizabeth

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ERIC Number: EJ573503

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Publication Date: 1997

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Block Scheduling and Advanced Placement Mathematics: When Tradition and Reform Collide.

Howard, Elizabeth

American Secondary Education, v26 n1 p13-16 Sep 1997

This case study reflects block scheduling's effects on advanced-placement mathematics courses of one veteran teacher tracking personal progress since 1989. Block scheduling began in 1994, creating problems for the teacher, whose resistance to the reform was based on declining advanced-placement scores. Teacher attitude and insufficient professional-development opportunities limit program success. (15 references) (MLH)

Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Block Scheduling, Case Studies, High Schools, House Plan, Interviews, Magnet Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Program Implementation, Resistance to Change, Scores, Teacher Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Texas

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