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Show 'Mother Tongue' Is Subject Dr. Morton Donner, director of the National Defense Education Educa-tion Act English Institute for high school teachers at the University, Univer-sity, has announced the deadline for application to the comprehensive compre-hensive Summer Program is April 15. HE URGED any high school English teacher who is interested in participating to make application as soon as possible. The institute, June 28-August 20, under co-sponsorship of the U.S. Office of Education under the NDEA, and the University, will consist of three graduate courses covering a period of eight weeks. THE COURSES will be in language, literature and composition and are designed to improve, quality of high school education through provision of extra training of teachers. There will be openings for 60 teachers who will enroll for the entire program. It will be worth 12 quarter hours of graduate credit to those completing it. PARTICIPANTS will pay no tuition and will receive stipends of $75 per week, plus $15 per week for each dependent from the government. Those taking the course, will, however, be expected to buy their own textbooks. University campus housing will be available, Dr. Donner said. Any high school English teacher with more than one year's experience and who has no more than a college minor in English is eligible for the course. DR. DONNER said each course is designed to provide substantive sub-stantive knowledge about its subject, not methodology for teaching teach-ing it. In making provisions for such programs, the Senate Committee Commit-tee on Labor and Public Welfare said, "The situation in the teaching teach-ing of English our mother tongue is so serious that it threatens the foundations of our educational enterprise and of our progress as a people." |