Abstract

T HE CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATION about educational reform centers almost exclusively on K12 school organization and classroom instruction. However, development of academic knowledge, skills, and dispositions probably cannot and certainly should not depend solely on work done in elementary and secondary schools. The value of certain non-school experiences is demonstrated in a summer program at University of California at Berkeley, Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP). As a program that aims to supplement, not supplant, school experiences, ATDP begins to reveal potential and importance of the relation of various educative interactions and institutions to one another and to society at large (Cremin, 1976, p. 24).

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