Stanford University and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will cooperate in an 11-week project in engineering systems design. (Author/RH)

THE LIBERAL STUDIES PROGRAM OFFERED CHALLENGING COURSES CONCERNED WITH THE TECHNIQUES OF CLEAR EXPOSITION AND HELPED ABLE STUDENTS FORM INTELLIGENT OPINIONS IN DIFFERENT FIELDS. THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM WAS TO ENRICH AND PROMOTE THE STUDENT'S PREPARATION IN A SPECIFIC FIELD THROUGH EXCITING COURSES AND STIMULATING TEACHERS. THE STUDENTS…

Summer classes involving field trips to agricultural businesses for vocational agriculture students are described. (MU)

1971 Summer Institute participants joined instructors of 1972 Institute for an exchange of views. Program design, a needed resource center, profile sheets on participants, and development of student material were discussed, with particular emphasis on increased coordination between the objectives of the law instructors and the education…

Teachers, attorneys and law educators met to evaluate 1971 workshops in law education and to plan improved learning experiences at future workshops. The use of mock trials, simulations, field trips, case methods, visiting speakers were discussed. Seven positive contributions of a summer institute workshop were recognized. (JB)

The paper describes the summer programs offered by Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, a year-round day school for elementary level hearing impaired students in Washington, D.C. The programs are explained to be based on a three-point philosophy: (1) summer programs should be different from those of the rest of the year; (2) summer programs…

Described are the program objectives, rationale, and evaluation of an elective, survival oriented, personal development summer program administered by the Atlanta Public Schools. The evaluation was of a quasi-experimental pretest, posttest design. The 34 students were evaluated by the California Test of Personality and "Operation…

THE PROGRESS IN DEVELOPING PROGRAMS TO STIMULATE AND COORDINATE EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS REPORTED. DESCRIBED ARE (1) CHANGES IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OFFICE OF PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, (2) INDIVIDUAL EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS IN SPECIFIC CURRICULUMS, (3) MODEL DEMONSTRATION SUBSYSTEM PROGRAMS (EXPERIMENTAL…

The Westinghouse-Ohio national evaluation of Head Start stated that the benefits that its participants received were of minimal long-term value. This conclusion was criticized by social scientists and statisticians. (CK)

If institutions of higher learning have admissions standards that admit the academically-disadvantaged student, then those same institutions should provide programs to assist the enrollee to be academically successful. The author cites an investigation made at Oklahoma State University, showing a significant relationship between provisional…