This summary documents five conferences, held throughout Massachusetts for leaders in business and education, to increase their awareness of industry-education partnerships and to provide them with information on how to initiate, organize, and sustain partnerships. Section 1 highlights keynote addresses by five educators and five businesspeople who had participated in successful partnership programs. Section 2 is the "State's Perspective on Partnerships," an address that was delivered by representatives of the Massachusetts Department of Education. Section 3 highlights presentations of partnership models that were represented by a business and education partnership. It begins with a summary of the benefits and problems that school and business partners articulated during their presentations and concludes with profiles of each of the partnerships participating in the symposia. Each profile contains the address; names of presenters; program focus; participants; and structure, management, and coordination. Section 4 presents the themes that ran through the four workshops held in the afternoon sessions: educational standards/student competence, career awareness/work preparation, strengthening the image of education, and community involvement. The section ends with a list of strategies recommended by participants. The final section is an overview of closing comments. (YLB)