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The aim of this locally-funded cooperative enterprise of the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the College of Education (COE) of the University of New Mexico is to improve the training of secondary and middle school teachers and to improve the secondary English curriculum. Student teachers are selected competitively for the program, which includes one semester of courses on human development, teaching methods, and curriculum construction, followed by a semester of full-time student teaching for which participants receive a $350 stipend. The student teachers and cooperating teachers work in teams of five or six in special facilities that can accommodate up to 80 students. Along with university personnel, they also participate in interpersonal training sessions. The revised curriculum developed during the first 2 years of the program will be implemented this year and then revised again if necessary. APSCOE funding is accomplished by an agreement between APS and COE whereby expected teacher vacancies in the target schools are left unfilled and the money saved is allocated to APSCOE purposes. The personnel gap is filled by the full-time student teachers. (RT)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert