If art education is to be a required subject, it needs validation. Needed is an art curriculum development project, similar to 1960 projects in math and physics, that is sponsored by an agency respected both by the academic and school establishments and by the general public. (Author/RM)

Smith describes the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education's provider approval program, a mechanism for assessing the quality of available continuing education programs. She maintains that the issue is not one of mandatory continuing education, but of ensuring the existence of programing which uses accepted principles of adult education. (SK)