Description of a summer program of an adolescent unit from a multidisciplinary treatment center for emotionally disturbed and organically handicapped children. The general purpose of the summer was to help these young people catch-up'' in social, emotional, academic and recreational skills. The change in physical surroundings did permit greater…

Explains the need to encourage minority students to choose physics as the field for advanced work. Institutes were organized during summer, enrolling minority students to enrich their backgrounds. Results have been encouraging and more extensive planning is underway. (PS)

Describes a four-week summer session for Mexican-American high school sophomores in the urban Denver area to encourage them to attend college. It consists of discussion groups, lectures, and laboratories followed during the winter with some tutoring and counseling. (TS)

The program of the Department of Staff Development in the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district is described. (CB)

Describes attempt to put counselor on a full year schedule, to enable him to update his information on students, courses, colleges, occupations, and to permit catching up on research, transcripts, handbook preparation. (CJ)

Institutes, held during the summer, assist school counselors and other educational personnel to learn more about the nature and needs of business, industry, and labor. (JK)

Describes special summer course attended by 18 Ontario German teachers at the Goethe Institute in West Berlin in 1971. Speech delivered on October 2, 1971, at the German sub-section of Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association, Ottawa, Canada. (DS)

Discusses a summer school program in Lake Oswego, Oregon, which offers opportunities for enrichment and exploration otherwise unavailable during the regular school year, gives remedial assistance in reading and math, offers help to students with extreme learning problems, and expands teacher in-service training. (Author/DR)

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)