The Career Awareness for Precocious Students (CAPS) program in Virginia Beach, Virginia, provides information to gifted senior secondary students on careers, colleges, and values. Professional Apprenticeship program matches juniors and seniors with community professionals who act as mentors. (MC)

Describes the Multiple Abilities Program at the University of Alabama, in which preservice teachers team with general and special elementary education classroom mentors to teach students with average and above average abilities and students with mild learning or behavior problems. The program involves preservice teachers in developing enrichment…

Vocational education (VE) in Switzerland is characterized by diversity and pragmatism and is shaped by the country's geography, political system, economy, and culture. Roughly two-thirds of all Swiss youth participate in some form of vocational training at the upper secondary level. Vocational certificates and higher vocational certificates can…