The 9-month school year with a 3-month summer vacation had its origin in our earlier agrarian life. Today's teacher shortages, overcrowded schools, and pressures to learn demand extensions of the school year. This publication analyzes five programs: (1) a staggered-vacation school year for all, (2) a full 48-week school year for all, (3) a…

This paper describes a 6-week summer course for 11 older graduates working as visiting teachers in nine Georgia counties, seeing many emotionally disturbed children and families. The course was intended to increase the self-awareness and self-confidence of the teachers, and the methods used included 1) Social System Simulation, with groups of five…

This document reports and analyzes direct technical assistance to school districts for the calendar year 1969. More than 6,400 requests for technical assistance were serviced from 1,300 school districts; approximately three-fourths of these requests were from Southern and border states. A major service was assisting school systems with the…

Approximately 288 programs conducted in various counties of Georgia during the regular school year or summer of 1969 and funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act are here reported in summary fashion. The following information is provided concerning each program: name of system, name of project, regular or summer…

To prepare vocational-technical teachers to work with dropout-prone youths in laboratories within the school and to discover how successful a special vocational-technical program would be in assisting those students with special needs, 24 dropout-prone occupational exploration students were chosen to participate in a 6-week summer experimental…

The Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) has developed and initially field tested during summer 1969 a Summer Reading Program (SRP) designed to prevent the decrement in kindergarten children's academic achievement caused by the lack of instruction and practice during the summer. Each parent supervised his child at home in structured reading…

The second session of a proposed 3-year annual summer Cultural and Creative Arts Program was held in 6 selected Monongalia County, West Virginia, schools for first- through sixth-grade pupils. Objectives were to emphasize the distinctive cultural character of Appalachia and to emphasize exploration and experimentation rather than mastery of formal…

During the summer of 1968, 625 inner-city secondary school youth, ages 14-18, participated in a work-study program. Objectives were: (1) to involve inner-city youth in the development and interpretation of open-ended urban problems study programs; (2) to determine the effects of involvement in a variety of study and employment experiences related…

The main aim of this 1963-67 exchange program was to try, under the auspices of both a British and an American university (Hull and Rochester, New York,) to develop relations between the two communities involved, and to enable participants to become better acquainted with the host country than would be possible through the usual kind of vacation…

A summer program designed for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders recommended as needing remediation or repetition met for three consecutive 90-minute sessions daily for 5 weeks. Regular school personnel staffed the 11 New York City schools designated as Summer Institutes and were assisted by guidance counselors and educational aides. Small…

Prepared by participants in the 1968 National Defense Education Act Institute on Wood Technology, this syllabus is one of a series of basic outlines designed to aid college level industrial arts woodworking instructors in improving and broadening the scope and content of their programs. The manual consists of a brief introduction followed by seven…

This descriptive and evaluative report covers a National Defense Education Act, Title XI, summer institute which was attended by 24 industrial arts teachers, supervisors, and teacher educators from 15 states. The objectives of the institute were to teach information about industrial materials and to allow participants to develop instructional and…

A talent development project at Mount Holyoke College, part of A Better Chance (ABC)-Independent Schools Talent Search program, was offered during the summer of 1968 to 71 disadvantaged high school students from 13 states. Major aims of the program were to help these students with college potential to strengthen their academic skills and…

Public education has been preoccupied with the rapid development of the physical sciences and mathematics, which place a premium on developing the reasoning processes but not on the adequate construction of value judgments. The purpose of the present program is to provide a means of presenting character education within a curriculum consistent…

A teacher staff of 21 was employed for 6 to 8 weeks during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969 at Virgin Valley, Nevada, with funding provided by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Title III). The purpose of the study was to determine the feasibility of summer employment for teachers by the school system. Project design called for 3…