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...education, job skills and $50 a month: 2) work-training programs ($150 million) for 200,000 boys and girls aged 16 to 21, who will be paid for part-time work while attending school-or, if they have already dropped out of school, fulltime work with counseling for job placement afterward; 3) a work-study program ($72.5 million) for 140,000 indigent college students who will be paid for part-time work on or off campus while they continue their studies...
...Moran Weston, rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Harlem, "there are a lot of natural leaders out on those streets. Somebody just needs to help them." Weston's church, for one, is helping by offering basketball and music, field trips and job placement services to 500 children a day. Some 150 social services are also at work in Harlem, spending as much as $10 million a year...
E.T.S. is the author of the familiar College Board tests and the somewhat less familiar Advanced Placement Examinations, which let able high school students skip certain required freshman courses. An advanced placement student still has to earn all of his credit hours for graduation on campus, which means that he has to work harder than his fellows. Now E.T.S. has worked out an exam that tests knowledge and achievement gained in modern, college-like high schools (or any other way) and determines its worth in terms of credit hours. The examination is based on nationwide tests of 2,600 students...
...bone of American democracy. By the 1950's this concern with the social purpose of education had decreased, and emphasis had shifted to developing the ability to think. During this "decade of intellect," the gifted child received much attention, and was the beneficiary of such innovations as the Advanced Placement Program...
More Saving. The billion-dollar figures are being translated into millions of everyday, personal decisions to spend. In San Francisco, the Western Girl temporary-employee-placement firm asked its young women how they were handling their plumper paychecks, reported that "the majority are putting it toward better living, new clothes, things like that." Travel agents say that the tax cut is largely responsible for the upsurge in their go-now, pay-later installment business. "This means taking my family to Scotland instead of Massachusetts this summer," beamed a Columbia Broadcasting vice president. Compared with the same month of last year...