This article describes both present and future advantages and disadvantages of the Ryan Act (the Teacher Preparation and Licensing Act of 1970)

Public accountability in America has led to the emergence of a competency-based, field-centered approach. The two major processes for achieving reform are the development of alternative teacher education institutions and the conversion of existing ones. The political and educational aspects of each process are considered. (Author/JA)

Institutions of higher learning, on the whole, have failed to draw upon the full potential of the accrediting process as an instrument for internal planning and development. (Editor)

Author, who is the President of the University of Michigan, discusses the principal change in the grading system in recent years - pass-fail grading. (Author/RK)

Discusses the Utah State method of supervision certification based on competence. A supervisor's planned program of study must insure (1) an advanced level of preparation in a broad set of curriculum subjects or in a field of specialty appropriate to the supervisory assignment, and (2) the acquisition of those competencies deemed essential for…

Academic freedom has come to represent a rallying cry for at least four conflicting sectors of the university community and in the process the concept for which it stands has been rendered increasingly powerless. (Editor/CB)

A plea for the retention of professional status for all teaching functions. Author believes this means a mandated minimum preparation with its essential features determined by the totality of practitioners. (RB)

Describes a post secondary program that can be completed at the end of three quarters for a certificate as an electronic draftsman, or six quarters as an electronic technician, depending on the student's goals. (GB)