Summer Institute for the Study of the United States for Foreign Secondary School Teachers and Teacher Trainers

Résumé

The Branch for the Study of the U.S. of the Office of Academic Programs of the United States Information Agency's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for an assistance award program entitled ``Summer Institute for the Study of the United States for Foreign Secondary School Teachers and Teacher Trainers.'' Public and private non-profit organizations meeting the provisions described in IRS regulation 26 CFR 1.501(c) may apply to develop a six-week graduate-level program designed for a multinational group of up to 30 secondary school teachers and teacher trainers. The program is intended to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the United States so that textbooks, curricula and teaching about U.S. society, culture and institutions in foreign secondary schools and teacher training institutions will be improved. Tentative program dates are June 20 through July 31, 1998. USIA is seeking detailed proposals from colleges, universities, consortia of colleges and universities, and other not-for-profit academic organizations that have an established reputation in the disciplines and sub-disciplines that comprise American Studies, and that can