A survey of 198 technology education teachers found 88 percent employed in high schools or junior high schools and only 3.6 percent under age 30. Greatest problems identified were increased academic requirements and lack of financial support. Greatest strengths were course content, staffing, and facilities. (SK)

This report contains an analysis of data collected during Phase 1 (spring 1979) of a project to develop and validate standards for industrial arts education programs. These data detail responses to four instruments devised by the project to survey fifty-four state and territorial supervisors of industrial arts and 2,235 public school principals,…