Describes a program at the Denver-Area Summer Institute where 80 local secondary school teachers were given an eight week course aimed at helping them understand and teach Hispano and Afro-American history. (LS)

A listing of summer courses, workshops, and seminars offered at various institutions during the summer of 1971 gives dates, credits, costs, and offering institutions and guest professors. (GB)

Nineteen implications and recommendations are presented for consideration by the industrial arts profession to provide direction and purpose to future industrial arts institutes. This is a report of a Master's Thesis submitted to the State University College of New York at Oswego. (GR)

Colleges and universities are opening up their campuses during the summer months and renting their campus facilities to outside groups. Colleges can generate extra revenue and bring added visibility to their campuses. However, small businesses have complained that colleges should pay taxes on their commercial activities. (MLW)

The Penn School of Nursing and the Macy Foundation established a comprehensive institute and technical assistance program to help nursing schools advance academic nursing practice. The Penn School consulted with 21 participating schools, providing institutes, conferences, a listserv and a web-based knowledge center focused on integrating research,…

An institute program designed to prepare secondary school science teachers to teach environmental concepts is described. Major themes are the interdisciplinary nature of environmental problems, development of favorable attitudes, and alternate forms of learning. Participant research and curriculum development are stressed and nine specific…

CLARKE COLLEGE IN DUBUQUE, IOWA, INITIATED AN NDEA SUMMER INSTITUTE IN READING IN 1965 TO UP GRADE ELEMENTARY READING INSTRUCTION AND TO CHECK UNDERACHIEVEMENT AMONG ITS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN. THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED WITH WORD RECOGNITION, TECHNIQUES OF QUESTIONING, COMPREHENSION, STUDY SKILLS, CRITICAL READING, CREATIVE READING, READING…

FIVE SUMMER, 1966, PILOT INSTITUTES AT FIVE UNIVERSITIES, ATTENDED BY 190 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY CIVICS TEACHERS WERE JUDGED WORTHWHILE BY THE AUTHORS. HOWEVER, DEFICIENCES WERE FOUND IN (1) SCHEDULING, (2) UTILIZATION OF LITERATURE (CURRENT POLITICAL SCIENCE LITERATURE WAS NOT USED TO GOOD ADVANTAGE), (3) TRANSFER AND TRANSLATION (THE INSTITUTE…

Reports and materials from the Hawaiian Studies Project are presented. The document, designed for elementary school teachers contains two major sections. The first section describes the planning phase of the project, the Summer Institute for Hawaiian Culture Studies (1976) and the follow-up workshops and consultant help (1976-77). The appendix to…

This paper contains a summary of the impact of writing projects that are modeled after and partially funded by the Bay Area Writing Project and emphasizes the growth and development of the Greater New Orleans Writing Project (GNOWP). The assumptions behind the National Writing Project that link these projects together, the research that supports…

Presented are summaries of 11 selected projects in the areas of language arts, instructional media, simulation, and the valuing process developed during the 1974 summer session of the Teacher Training Institute of the Governor's School (North Carolina) by institute teachers and gifted students. Outlined are language arts projects on the history of…