A short term training institute conducted August 12 to August 23, 1968, at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, is described. Thirteen participants took part in a series of meetings, discussions, and activities related to evaluation problems connected with innovative reading programs funded under Title I and Title III of the Elementary and…

This directory lists the institutions awarded support by the National Science Foundation for 276 summer institutes in 1972 for secondary school teachers of science and/or mathematics. The introduction gives information on "unitary" and "sequential" institutes, eligibility and selection of participants, applications, and information concerning…

This study measured the effectiveness of teacher education programs in modifying cross-cultural attitudes through Osgood's Semantic Differential (SD) techniques, coupled with factor and pattern similarity analyses. The five concepts rated were desegregation, discipline, instructional technique, professionalism, and students. Subjects were 51 black…

The report describes the summer institute of the cooperative College-School Science Program, Prince George's County/University of Maryland, which met from June 21 to July 28, 1972 in Riverdale, Maryland. Participants consisted of twenty-five teachers who were enrolled for six hour credits from the University of Maryland. The overall objectives of…

Leaders of lifelong learning programs convene at Harvard each June for two weeks of learning, reflection, self-renewal, networking, planning, and camaraderie. The Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education is described, along with its curriculum themes of adult as a developing and learning person, institutional management, and…

Career mapping can heighten one's sense of readiness for increased responsibility and suggest new possibilities for a professional career. The Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, cosponsored by Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), Mid-America and Bryn Mawr College, is described. (Author/MLW)

By the simple technique of opening our minds a bit, we can come to judge African music from the African's point of view rather than from our own. (Author)

Describes a summer institute to give participants the working experience of being evaluators. (Author/MB)

Discusses need for supportive teacher education, retraining of professional and technological personnel every ten years, additional formal training for administrators, curriculum officers and lecturers, experimental teaching methods and appropriate incentives to encourage teachers now teaching and to attract new people to the field. (RB)

Describes content and philosophy of a summer workshop for students and teachers on water pollution. (DS)