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Thirty-one of Pasadena's listings are historic districts, which include multiple contributing properties. Among these historic districts is Old Town Pasadena, a thriving historic district of shops, bars and restaurants in well-preserved turn-of-the-century buildings with its center at Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Boulevard.
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. It is more common in middle and high schools than in primary schools.
In 1954 Pasadena voted for a new 6-3-2-2 grade plan for both Pasadena High School and Pasadena Junior College. This merged John Muir and Pasadena Junior Colleges, creating John Muir High School and separating Pasadena High School. Pasadena High School continued to share a campus with Pasadena City College until 1960.
At the Incarnate Word High School San Antonio, Texas classes run on a modular schedule. Each day is broken down into 17 time-periods called "mods." Mods are 20 minutes long, except the lunch mods, which are 26 minutes. The schedule is on a two-week cycle. There are no bells between mods, and students are responsible for arriving to classes on time.
The school was named John Muir Technical High School and though majority White, it served a growing community of Black, Japanese-American and Mexican-American students. In 1938, the school was converted into a junior college and renamed Pasadena Junior College West. It closed during WW2 and was used by the US Army as a Training School.
It saw a jump in the 2012 school year, rising 156 places, back into the top 10%. Marshall in 2017 was ranked 897 overall in the nation and 152 in California. [citation needed] As of 2022, Marshall is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as being the 190th-ranked high school in California and the 1,303rd ranked high school in the nation. [3]
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