Concord High, in New York City, provides an intensive education program in which one subject (English, science, mathematics, or foreign language) is studied in depth each quarter. With a heterogeneous student population, the school offers a variety of learning methods and close student faculty relationships. (SJL)

This paper describes the planning and implementation of a 4-quarter, year-round program instituted for the 32,000 high school students enrolled in the Atlanta Public School System. The school district was faced with finding a pattern of organizational structure that would carry a flexible, changing curriculum and allow for the individual goals of…