A rural Canadian secondary school developed a cross-age peer-assisted summer program to improve academic achievement and career awareness. Although there was no significant improvement in math grades for female participants, 91 percent of students claimed the program helped them in their present courses. Other outcomes included improved academic…

In this article, the authors describe the eight-day Summer Institute, a part of an on-going "American History as Dialogue" Project funded by the United States Department of Education Teaching American History grant program. The focus of this project is both historical inquiry and the history of race in America. The goal of the project is to…

This article outlines a 2-year foreign language in the elementary school (FLES) pilot project that resulted in an unusual model of program funding and considers additional issues relevant to funding such programs. The 1990-1992 pilot project implemented by Michigan State University, the Black Child and Family Institute of Lansing, and the Lansing…

This manual is designed to support Iowa's library-based summer reading programs for children of all ages, though its primary focus is on elementary age children. Following a general information section, the manual is divided into eight parts, dealing respectively with: (1) publicity and programming, including sample print and radio announcements…

An early childhood resource teacher implemented a practicum intervention designed to improve the school attendance of at-risk kindergartners and first and second graders in a low-income, inner-city area in central Florida. The intervention involved the transformation of self-contained, graded classrooms into primary units comprised of multi-age…

This report describes three programs in Oregon and Washington which provide opportunities for teachers to update their skills by spending their summer in structured work experience or internship programs in business and industry. Benefits to teachers are listed as well as characteristics of successful programs. The programs are: (1) Economic…

In an effort to improve minority recruitment and retention, the University of Arizona collaborated with Pima Community College to launch the Exploratory Transfer Institute (ETI), a summer program to encourage minority students who were not considering transfer to do so. The ETI was conceived, planned, and implemented through a relatively complex…

Described is a summer institute designed to teach high school teachers about the philosophical and historical roots of the three social science disciplines of economics, sociology, and psychology. During the institute, participants read and discussed the primary works by the most important philosophers and writers of Western civilization. It was…

The 1978 Summer Reading Institute, which served 58 Washington, D.C., elementary school children, is described in this paper. Major characteristics of the program model are first identified, along with elements that were added to the model in the preplanning stage. Numerous aspects of the program are then described, including the make-up of the…

This overview of the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) discusses the initiation and development of BAWP, the proliferation of programs based on the Bay Area model, and the establishment of the National Writing Project (NWP). The basis for BAWP is described as the recognition that there are outstanding teachers of writing in the schools and that…

This report details the Scientific Programming Course that is a part of "Project SOUL." The course is intended for underprivileged high school juniors and seniors having an interest in mathematics or science and aspirations to attend college. The report is divided into three sections. In section I, the administration and operation of the…

Summaries of research and production activities for "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company" are provided in this quarterly report, as well as information on the Children's Television Workshop's community education services, public affairs, personnel, and merchandise products. A table indicating foreign countries in which…

This report delineates the step-by-step process of planning, holding, and following-up the 1978 Summer Invitational Workshop on Teaching Writing held by the Southeast Center for the Teaching of Writing (SCTW) for teachers at the elementary through the college level. The various sections of the report contain a description of the SCTW, its…

This report lists the goals of the Head Start project and describes its organization and procedures. A brief introduction describes the need for preschool education in Chicago and past and present programs which have attempted to meet the need. The report describes the children's social and economic deprivation. More attention, however, is given…

The directory provides information on 110 recreational object-oriented summer programs which are appropriate for the placement of institutionalized children and which have staffs experienced in working with multiply handicapped children or are willing to integrate such children into their activities. Maps are provided showing the location of camps…