A brief empathic communication training program, integrating shaping and feedback with modeling and experiential procedures is described here. (Author)

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)

Authors propose a Staff Development Institute for Elementary and Secondary School teachers of Puerto Rican students, which will be concerned with the development of knowledge of Puerto Rican culture and specific professional skills. (Authors/MB)

Fritz Berghaus, training chief of the Economic Council of the Iron and Steel Industry in Western Germany, describes how the Council helps training officers and instructors to do their job. (Editor)

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)

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)

The incorporation of religion into social studies courses in Florida's public schools is discussed. (CK)

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)

Legislation introduced for a National Institute of Education is described. (MF)

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)