Public Schools: The All-Year Year

How about spending the long, hot summer in school? Few American schoolchildren would be expected to stay away voluntarily from the softball lot, the beach, the fishing hole. Yet, in Atlanta, where few schools are air-conditioned, almost one-third of 38,000 eligible high school pupils have volunteered this year to stick to their books through the sweltering heat of July and August.

The 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...

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