Year-round programs allow students to enter and progress through school at their own pace, eliminate the long 3-month forgetting period, cut down on the number and duration of failures, reduce students' summer boredom, multiply students' job opportunities, and enhance the holding power of schools at the secondary level. These programs also make it…

The National Council on Year-round Education was formed in 1972 to aid professional schoolmen and supportive board members who feel that our traditional school attendance pattern is unsound from an educational, financial, and societal standpoint. The Council's president-elect cites here the past year's activities of the Council and presents…