Fifty disadvantaged urban boys ranging from ages 11 to 16 participated in a 6-week summer writing workshop patterned on the ideas of James Moffett, Donald Murray, and John Dixon. The students were divided into groups of five, were trained in methods of group discussion (aided by video tapes to prepare them for profitable analysis of each others'…

To disseminate inquiry training methods and materials, the project produced instructional films on the methods, prepared a teacher's manual, and conducted an institute to train teachers and administrators in the procedures. Twenty educators from 11 school districts were enrolled in the summer institute as team members and were trained for 4 weeks…

Forty-four prospective supervising teachers from public schools in Kentucky, cooperating in the student teaching programs of colleges and universities, participated in this Institute funded under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The objectives were to provide participants with a basic experience in human relations in an inter-racial setting;…

Using official records and two sample surveys, this longitudinal study analyzed patterns of attendance and persistence among University of Minnesota General Extension Division evening class (EC) students. They tended to be young (under 30), male, and married. Roughly half each year were new to the university as well as to the evening classes.…

Major elements of this cooperative training project by the University of Wyoming will be a Federally funded 1969 summer institute (the third in a series) for 35 administrators of adult basic education (ABE) in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, and Idaho; a year-round demonstration library and center for ABE materials and equipment; a regional…

Reported is a special training institute, funded by the U.S. Office of Education, on school desegregation in Georgia. Participants were school personnel and community representatives from 19 school systems of a single district. The nine-day summer institute sought to provide opportunities for self-examination and for information acquisition about…

More than 50 professional nurses participated in the summer workshop to prepare teachers for associate degree nursing programs. The general structure of the workshop provided for general sessions in the morning for all participants and small afternoon group sessions organized on the basis of curricular area--fundamentals of nursing, nursing in…

This report describes a summer training institute designed to develop research skills among 30 selected local school district representatives from Kentucky and Appalachia to enable them to serve as research coordinators in their districts. The purpose of the institute was to increase the capability of local school districts to improve their school…

A 1969 summer program for the education of migrants in Iowa operated under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is summarized and evaluated. Program components reported on are: exemplary projects, children served, grade placement, teacher-pupil ratio, inter-relationships with regular Title I programs, coordination with…

This report provides an indepth guide for the development of a summertime inservice training program for social studies teachers. The course is based on a 38-hour, three-week institute for 12 New York city secondary school teachers held during the summer of 1974. The program content covers four skill areas including the inquiry method, class…

A group of 34 experimental and 45 control teachers provided data on 1,866 pupils in 75 different classrooms in 24 communities in the United States to determine the extent to which the workshop training provided for recipients of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Fellowships in the summer of 1972 affected the economic understanding of their pupils.…

Learning problems of 392,317 students in Texas were diagnosed as being severe enough to require special treatment under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Title I Regular, during the 1972-73 school year. This number, 14 percent of the 2.8 million students enrolled in public schools in Texas, represented a concentrated effort to…

Educational and recreational opportunities for adults within Metro Toronto and other areas of Ontario are covered, along with educational institutions, organizations, and locations. Summer 1971 course listings, arranged alphabetically by subjects, include name and number, institutional address, days and time, starting dates, hours per week, fees…

The author reports two federally funded programs designed to teach decoding utilizing a perceptual conditioning approach. Teachers in the projects worked with small groups or with individuals. The primary materials were word cards in the five decoding kits published by Easier-to-Learn materials. The cards were arranged in 125-word groupings…

This evaluation of the Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 programs of New York City Community School District I, reviews six programs, as follows: (1) Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten program, Early Childhood Pre-School Summer Headstart, serving children who have never attended school and who will attend kindergarten or some who…