From the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Discusses a summer program for disadvantaged junior and senior high school students intended to offer career education in aviation. The program included flight and ground school and simulator instruction. (MLH)

The Harvard-Yale-Columbia Intensive Summer Studies Program (ISSP) was established in 1965 to prepare students from predominantly black and selected southern white colleges for graduate study in the arts and sciences, law, medicine, and related fields. In 1966, 59% and in 1967, 71% of the ISSP class went on to graduate school. The original plan…

Informal and formal programing for gifted children in grades 4 through 12 in Israel are described. After school and summer enrichment programs, special classes and special schools for the gifted are discussed; and a number of programs for gifted children from disadvantaged backgrounds are presented. The author reports on her own research studies…

OPERATIONAL FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL 1965 UPWARD BOUND PROGRAMS ARE BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED. THE GOAL OF THE UPWARD BOUND PROGRAMS, WHICH ARE UNIVERSITY-BASED AND ARE CONDUCTED DURING THE SUMMER AND THROUGHOUT THE ACADEMIC YEAR, IS TO PREPARE NORMALLY INTELLIGENT DISADVANTAGED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR ADMISSION TO AND SUCCESS IN COLLEGE. THE PROGRAMS…

The 1969 study, the first in a series which attempts to reflect the impact of selected summer migrant programs, yielded the base data for the ongoing 3-year study. Some 228 Mexican American children aged from 4 to 8 years, enrolled in special summer migrant classes, were given the (1) Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), (2) Wide Range…

A 1969 summer program for the education of migrants in Iowa operated under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is summarized and evaluated. Program components reported on are: exemplary projects, children served, grade placement, teacher-pupil ratio, inter-relationships with regular Title I programs, coordination with…

Reported is a research and development program, Project Opportunity, which involved 11 high schools in eight Southern states. Sponsors and participants were the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Ford Foundation, Berea, Centre, and Transylvania Colleges, the schools systems of Breathitt and Lee Counties and the Princeton, N.J., High…

A 1967 evaluation of New York City's Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) educational enrichment program presents the objectives and the methods of implementation of the Board of Education and the local community agencies which administered the project. Criticized are the diversity of the program objectives, the lack of provision for a specified…

IN A REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF PROGRAMS BEING COOPERATIVELY DEVELOPED BY MOBILIZATION FOR YOUTH AND THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ARE DESCRIBED--(1) INSERVICE EDUCATION COURSES FOR TEACHERS, (2) DEVELOPMENTS IN TEACHER TRAINING, (3) CURRICULUM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, (4) CORRECTIVE READING PROGRAMS, (5) THE…

Application and recommendation forms, numerous evaluation forms, questionnaires, and responses to taped interviews are some areas of information presented in Appendices I-XIV contained in Volume II. See also Volume I of the Harvard Health Careers Summer Program (TM 000 760) and the Report Summary (TM 000 762). (AG)

Described is Washington's Model School Division, an experimental educational project in a disadvantaged area of the city. The efforts in this target area include curriculum innovations, a preschool program, a teacher aide program, and two six-week summer institutes combining inservice training of teachers with pupil enrichment. Also discussed are…