The Effects of Block Scheduling on Student Achievement

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The Effects of Block Scheduling on Student Achievement

United States High School Education

Secondary schools in the United States play a very diverse role in the students ' social life (Faircloth Hamm , 2005 . The highs schools develop the cognitive capabilities of the students and are judged according to how well the students perform in the areas of reading mathematics , other computational subjects , and the conceptual s (Maloy Seidman , 1999 ,

. 23 . The high schools are also given considerable responsibility for developing attitudes , expectations , and skills that will prepare the students

for adult social life and their future work schedules . The major role of the United States high schools is not limited to either cognitive instruction or socialization alone (Donaldson , 1991 ,

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Further , the current high school era in the United States separate the students into their social strata that will determine or restrict their social or occupational opportunities . The students often include African Americans , Asians , Europeans (Madhere , 1997 ,

. 137 , and other bilingual students (Faltis , 1993 ,

. 136 . The high schools perform valuation functions by providing certificates indicating that the students have accomplished their academic requirements . Also , the United States high schools perform their custodial function of by taking control of the students within the school premises (Tobin Sprague 2000 ,

. 177 . In short , the adolescent person entering the high school life must be mentally , physically , morally (Cullinan Sabornie , 2004 and emotionally prepared to tackle all academic requirements of the school . In fact , the students should do their utmost to graduate with flying colors . These flying colors could be in the field of sports like basketball , soccer , football , baseball , track and field (Schafer , 2003 Also , the flying colors could be in the field of academics by doing more than they could muster to be the valedictorian of the class or simply one of the top students (Kelly , 1979 ,

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Also , high school life is full of criticism . The high school students would talk about their favorite teachers (Foote , Vermette , Wisniewski Agnello Pagano , 2000 ,

. 128 . They would also spread rumors of some teachers who do not fit the teacher roles (Phillips Barrow , 2006 These high school students give varying reasons for their classroom environment as well as the environment inside the school premises (Allen Ashbaker , 2004 . Most of the students pick a person as their favorite teacher because he or she cares about them . Many of the students feel that their favorite teachers are doing their best to make the students stay in school very comfortable enough to digest the heavy lessons of the day (Morrell Collatos , 2002 . The students believe their favorite teachers are those that push them to go over their physical , mental and emotional ability in to overcome the day to day classroom requirements . These classroom requirements come in the form of regular quizzes , attendance , group activities , exams , major examinations projects and many other teacher imposed high school goals (Grant , 2003 br

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In addition , a typical day in a high school class...