Word: year-round
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...students are taking advantage of Atlanta's new four-quarter plan for year-round schooling, the first to be adopted by an American city since the 1930s. The flexible scheme will allow them to choose any quarter they like for their vacation, or to attend all year without interruption. High-schoolers in a hurry can compress five years of studies into 45 months by taking extra quarters. Slow learners can use summer lessons to make up failed courses, take their time mastering subjects difficult for them, without dropping a year behind their class. Scholars interested in improving their prospects...
More than 250 other school districts have recently considered year-round classes. Atlanta has had inquiries from 37 states and 89 cities about its plan. New York State's education department last year recommended an eleven-month school calendar, is now drafting implementing legislation...
...compulsory year-round system has actually been tested in schools in other cities, usually as a cost-cutting expedient; it is obviously wasteful to keep costly educational facilities idle for a quarter of each year. Moreover, if a school system operates twelve months instead of nine, it can provide nine months of education per year for one-third again as many students. But pilot studies have demonstrated no appreciable economies and have shown that there is opposition to compulsory attendance during the summer quarter. Atlanta, by encouraging voluntary summer participation to broaden the learning process rather than merely to increase...
Their White House West will be Cotton Point, a spacious adobe villa in the resort town of San Clemente, 50 miles south of Los Angeles. The location appeared ideal for a presidential retreat. The weather is dry and sunny nearly year-round, offering a respite from muggy Key Biscayne summers. There is privacy; the house sits on 20 sequestered acres on a bluff between the ocean and the coastal highway. There is even the convenience of nearby Camp Pendleton, with a handy helicopter pad for presidential commuting...
...last of the miners had left by the turn of the century, and it was not until four years ago that a new band of prospectors returned to Mineral King. Financed by the late Walt Disney, they systematically surveyed the Sierra woodland-now a part of a national forest. Finally they suggested that Mineral King's real riches could be realized in 20th century America as a year-round vacation resort. It sounded at first like a sterling idea to almost everyone concerned. Last week, however, when the Disney group's plans were given final approval...