Research: Education-Block Scheduling

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/class-struggle/post/fighting-over-school-fad-with-meager-results/2012/02/12/gIQAtH6n8Q_blog.html#pagebreak

This article is about the controversy over block scheduling, whether it improves or diminishes the level of learning students achieve on a day to day basis. In it, Jay Mathews talks about both the pros and cons. He says that in most schools their isn't a significant difference in student's grades after switching from block to regular, or vice versa. Some of the cons of block scheduling that Mathews mentioned were students were more likely to forget their lessons from the previous days and that it is harder to make up work and get notes that you missed with block scheduling. Pros that were mentioned for block schedule would be that teachers get the chance to teach more in depth during class and it gives students more time to study and do their homework.