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)

A recently constructed New York elementary school is an example of how cities are finding ways to provide quality education for children in facilities that assume the additional role of community centers during after-school hours. (MF)

A listing of summer courses, workshops, and seminars offered at various institutions during the summer of 1971 gives dates, credits, costs, and offering institutions and guest professors. (GB)

A brief survey of the inception, organization, objectives, implications and effectiveness of Project Head Start. (MBM)

This is a brief description of a summer visitation program designed to facilitate orientation of sixth graders about to enter junior high school. The counselor visited each new seventh grader at his home, met with him and his parents and discussed realistic goals for the student based on his records and on parents' aspirations. (CJ)

Nineteen implications and recommendations are presented for consideration by the industrial arts profession to provide direction and purpose to future industrial arts institutes. This is a report of a Master's Thesis submitted to the State University College of New York at Oswego. (GR)

Physical education--as well as other academic areas such as agriculture, language arts, business, music, home economics, art, and commercial skills--made up the curriculum for this 4-week program. (SW)

Gifted children have the same health needs as do other children, but because of their accelerated intellectual abilities, their need for information may out-distance that of peers. Aspects of a special summer health course, designed for academically talented fourth and fifth graders, are described. (Author/JMK)