This primer is intended as a guide for the development and improvement of summer youth programs. The primer focuses on three common forms of summer academic enrichment strategies that combine work and learning: work-based learning strategies, classroom-based enrichment strategies, and summer jobs strategies. It includes information on the…

Media specialists and educators considering implementation of child-oriented film programs are provided with useful guidelines and case studies. Following an editorial assessing the myth of the short attention span in children, 10 articles cover the planning, promotion, and implementation of a variety of museum film programs. Included are: large…

The journal includes nine articles on the theme of a world view of foreign language teaching. They are: "The Foreign Language Articulation Task Force Survey: A Report" (Reid Baker); "Report of the Ohio Foreign Language Task Force" (Barbara Snyder); "The Akron Story Part I: Summer Foreign Language Camps" (John D. Durden and Sandra K. Strauber);…

These 12 newsletter issues provide educational resources to providers of school-age child care. Each eight-page issue may include several feature articles; activities that providers can use with children; descriptions of professional development activities and training programs; information on books, pamphlets, and other educational materials in…

These 12 articles focus on the theme of the arts in gifted education and nurturing artistic talent in the schools. "The California State Summer School for the Arts and Some Thoughts on Advocacy for Arts Education" by William Cleveland describes a program for artistically talented high school students and proposes a workshop based…

All five issues of volume 21 of the "Communicator," a journal concerned with giftedness in school-age children, are collected in this document. Major articles (and their authors) include the following: "Technology and Change: From the Renaissance World to Microworlds" (Gail Marshall); "Computers and Creativity: Tools,…