Changes in ABC

The summer program of Project ABC, the remedial education experience which offers promising high school youngsters A Better Chance, will undergo several changes in both its duration and format in 1971. It will return to the six-week session used prior to last summer when two four-week sessions were tried. The shorter sessions did not work, according to Delvin E. Benjamin, director of the summer program, because of conflict with the opening and closing dates of the student's regular school terms and insufficient time to accomplish the program's aims in four weeks.

Those participating in the session this summer will be offered a group-oriented Outward Bound type of program in addition to the intense format of academics and athletics presented in the past. Another important change involves the tutor in the program, who in addition to his past responsibilities as assistant to both the student and the teacher, will be given the use of two periods a week to offer a course not included in the regular English, reading, and mathematics curriculum of the program. The purpose of the "tutor electives," Benjamin said, is to get the tutors involved with the students to a greater degree and to promote commitment to the program as a prerequisite for tutoring.