A review by a secondary school counselor of his experience during the summer as a counselor in job placement and counseling with the employment service in Chicago. (BC)

The article summarizes methodology and results of tests given to 30 13-year-old students who were nominated by their six schools as scientifically talented, for a summer science enrichment course at Nene College, England. Reported are children's ideas about the "ideal" classroom, the "ideal" teacher, and the "ideal"…

Describes the Summer Scholars program in which 20 high school students in the top of their class take two community college courses in the summer between their junior and senior years. Discusses the courses offered, credit, program success and benefits. (AYC)

Described is a New York State summer art program designed to bring exceptionally talented high school students to work in a professional setting with well-known artists. (KC)

Describes an annual summer workshop at the University of Central Florida (UCF) that seeks to interest minority high school students in journalism, to encourage them to attend college, and to acquaint them with UCF. Describes some of the difficulties and some of the solutions tried. (TJ)

Outlines a summer session for gifted students in the performing arts held by the Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville, Maryland. (JM)

Describes a course in printmaking taught at the Indiana University Summer Arts Institute (Bloomington), a two-week program for artistically talented seventh- through tenth-grade students. Focuses on two printmaking processes, acetate etching and linoleum block printing, and on altering and improving an image associated with each process. (LS)

A variety of activities used in a three-week summer program for 55 students, aged 11 to 16 years, to develop leadership skills are described. Significant increases in scores on the Leadership Skills Inventory appeared to result from the course. (DB)

About 900 gifted teenagers attend the Summer Residential Program of the Talent Identification Program at Duke University's East Campus or Marine Lab in North Carolina each summer. The program offers accelerated academic instruction, an on-campus residential experience, and planned social and recreational activities. (DB)

Narrates the experiences of a book club organized and carried out in a northern Georgia community during a summer vacation period. Describes the organization and content of the club. Highlights the experiences in that club, as recorded in extensive interviews, of Matika, one of the participants. (HB)

Describes the Orange Summer Shakespeare Festival, which offers teenagers from New Jersey (most of them African American) the opportunity to perform Shakespeare for their community and to cocreate an exemplary piece of theater that serves as a forum for the cast to transmute their stories and express their dreams, fears, rage, and joy. (SR)

The Job Training Partnership Act (JPTA) Title-B mandates that some of its monies be used for remediation of basic skills and places new emphasis on literacy. The act also requires that a system be developed to evaluate the effectiveness of the remediation program. In West Virginia the summer implementation program for JPTA eligible students that…

A summer campsite program for leadership training of Future Farmers of America chapter officers and committee heads is presented, along with a schedule for training sessions and information about other chapter leadership activities. (MF)

The Indiana University Summer Arts Institute, which serves 60 artistically talented students from grades 7 through 10, is described. Eligibility criteria, program goals and structure, program content (emphasis on visual arts, music, dance, and drama), the inservice component, and research/evaluation are discussed. (DB)