Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore) hired twenty inner city teenagers for an eight-week period, placing them under four college student program directors. (Author/JB)

Presents questionnaire results showing that 86 percent of capital cities held summer reading programs in 1967; that 63 percent of the programs had federal funds; that aides, clerical workers, nurses, librarians, and psychologists assisted teachers; that programs utilized a number of approaches; and that evaluation was done through…

Operation Opportunity was a demonstration project sponsored by General Foods to hire disadvantaged high school students for summer jobs and to hold in escrow one dollar for every dollar earned for future education or vocational training at any approved institution. (BC)

The Institute for Junior College Teachers of Disadvantaged Students from Urban Ghettos was a summer program designed to acquaint white middle class teachers with life in six San Francisco slums. This institute can be used as a model for training teachers for other inner-city junior colleges. (MS)

The School for the Humanities of the New York City Summer Junior High Schools, having as its theme Contemporary Man, is described. (DB)

Programs were offered for fine arts students, 14-18 years old, in nine areas: orchestra, ballet, modern dance, acting, creative writing, mime, painting, printmaking, and photography. Guest artists also participated. The effect of the summer session upon the work of the students is easily recognizable. (RM)

The Georgia Governor's Honor Program invites 400 gifted high school students each year to participate in a six-week summer residential program. The program's purpose is to offer students challenging educational opportunities not available during the regular school year. Program objectives include assembling an instructional staff with unique…

Nine to 14-year-old writers who participated in the Young People's Institute, a summer program for gifted and talented students, worked on tasks based on the Enrichment Triad Model. Examples of the work from their anthology are presented. (CL)

Designed to meet the needs of children who have no other means of receiving nutritious meals during the summer months, the summer food program operates out of schools, churches, playgrounds, parks--facilities which can demonstrate that they have the capability to serve wholesome meals and snacks to children in needy areas. (Author/NQ)

Described is a summer art program organized by the Department of Art at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California for students between the ages of 8 and 14. The program included eight hours of instruction per weekly class. (KC)

Teachers of 12-month programs in vocational agriculture must constantly be on the alert to safeguard summer programs. Successful vocational agriculture teachers are concerned with eight summer program areas: in-school youth, Future Farmers of America, adult education, facilities, planning, community service, inservice training, and other summer…