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Highlands Biological Station and Nature Center
A year-round biological field station located on a high plateau in the southern Appalachian Mountains of southwestern North Carolina providing learning opportunities for teachers and students.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Betsy-Jeff Penn 4-H Educational Center
This 4-H Educational Center provides year-round programming, including team-building and environmental education to students in 2nd through 6th grades.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Hickory Ridge Homestead
Visitors get insight into the lifestyle of early mountain settlers, how they lived, and what constituted a 'typical' mountain homestead at this eighteenth-century living history museum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge
Located on the north end of Hatteras Island, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge provides programs which focus on "interpretation, environmental education, wildlife observation, wildlife photography, and fishing."
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
Learn about the heritage of the "down east" people and explore the cultural and natural resources of the Core Sound region of North Carolina.
Format: article/field trip opportunity

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Model of education in which students attend school throughout the year with regular short breaks.

Additional information

Advocates of year-round schools argue that they provide three primary benefits:

  1. More frequent breaks for students and teachers help to prevent burn-out.
  2. Schools can address overcrowding without building new facilities, by staggering student attendance.
  3. The need for extensive review and re-teaching at the beginning of a traditional academic year is eliminated, and more time left for teaching new material.

Year-round schools do not alter the minimum number of required school days in an academic year.

Examples and resources

See Education Week’s "Year-Round Schooling" for a thorough discussion of year-round schooling.