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...house bored out of their skull. But for kids like Amy Simon, 9, of Mooresville, North Carolina, a new school year is just beginning. Last week Amy was in her air-conditioned fourth-grade science class at Park View Elementary, mixing together polyvinyl and Borax to make red, green and yellow slime. "If you have the whole summer off, you get bored," she says. Instead of a long summer vacation, Amy now goes to school year-round, with shorter but more frequent break periods. "Just when I get tired of school, it's time for a break," says...
...steadily catching on. As of June 30, 1.4 million students were enrolled in year-round schools, from rural North Carolina to inner-city Detroit -- an increase from 429,000 five years ago. The largest number are in California; 42% of the students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the state's largest, are enrolled in year- round programs. The apparent success of such schooling has inspired hundreds of districts across the country to study the concept; if current trends continue, National Association for Year-Round Education officials say, the number will more than double...
...major benefit of such schedules is to improve students' retention rate. Teachers in traditional nine-month schools often must spend three to six weeks in the fall reviewing material learned the previous year. "The year-round program is particularly good for at-risk students because they don't have that long summer to forget what they struggled so hard to learn," says Brenda Teeter, a Mooresville science teacher...
Surrounded by dozens of children at a buoyant White House ceremony, President Clinton signed into law an expansion of Head Start that would permit the popular preschool program to reach out to children under three and provide full-day, year-round classes. Where the President's proposed $700 million increase to fund the more ambitious Head Start will come from is unclear...
Once the home of chewing gum king William Wrigley, this Orange Grave Blvd, mansion now serves as the headquarters of the Tournament of Roses Association. Filled with television cameras and shivering boy scouts bearing float banners every January 1, Wrigley Mansion is the year-round home to a wealth of Pasadena history. Aside from the pictures of Rose Parades past, visitors can stop by to view Tournament aficionado Gene Autry's cowboy costume, the bathroom where the President Dwight D. Eisenhower once locked himself for hours shortly before the parade's start and all the marble a fortune in Doublemint...