Reports on experiment utilizing various sample combinations of tests' results from student's personnel record for placing entering college freshmen in proper mathematics sequence. (RP)

One of the problems of educational research is that the Research & Development community has not kept the educational community informed of the progress it has made in attaining objectives. Article relates to this problem. (Author/ML)

Relates secondary program development, teacher preparation, students served, and challenges in agricultural education. (DM)

Describes the State-of-Illinois supported Cooperative Summer Institute of McKendree College, Lebanon, Illinois, which participated in a week-long Creative-Problem Solving Institute at the State University College in Buffalo, New York. (MB)

Competency-based teacher education refers to programs that are: (a) field centered; (b) individualized; (c) basedon specific performance criteria; (d) controlled by a consortium made up of representatives of at least colleges/universities, professional teacher organizations and representatives of the schools involved. (Authors)

The expansion of the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute's cooperative program is described. Recruiting and selection of students for the program which leads to the Master's degree, and relations with faculty also are included. (TS)

This article has two thrusts -- the first, to present the model and guidelines developed at the Purdue NASSP-PSSAS Conference, and the second to summarize reactions from the field to the proposed model. (Editor)