Team planning in Kentucky provides the curriculum materials specialist with competent assistance. (Editor)

The National Network for Curriculum Coordination in Vocational-Technical Education has become a significant national medium for exchange of vocational curriculum information and materials, the authors state in reviewing the network's organization and accomplishments. However, funding arrangements have created friction within the networks. (MF)

Information on the development of a welding program and curriculum is presented to assist instructors and administrators in the implementation of a training program. The American Welding Society is recommended as an authoritative source for assistance. (EC)

The authors propose a redesigned curriculum to fit the broadened definition of vocational education. (Editor)

A Self-Help Program for Chicano Women. (Editor)

A classroom teacher without benefit of project funds pondered, created, and implemented an instructional system designed to reach students with learning difficulties.

Minnesota's 916 area vocational institutes which use a competency-based instructional system are described. Components of this instructional system delineated in the article are the setting, mainstreaming approach, grading system, program goals, educational advantages, curriculum and model development, evaluation, and teacher inservice. (BM)

There is a trend toward State education department leadership in the installation of management systems for vocational education, partially because of the avaliability of funds for curriculum purposes. There are three basic types of State curriculum laboratories supervising curriculum management and dealing with curriculum problems. (AG)

Is career education the best way to achieve educational reform? (Editor)

In its firm commitment to competency-based vocational education, Kentucky has gone beyond its V-TECS catalogs to develop modules that will give teachers almost complete flexibility in individualized instruction. Implementation of the model is fully described. (HD)

The article reports on a study undertaken by Florida State University in cooperation with the Lewis M. Lively Area Vocational-teechnical School to develop a followup procedure in electrical and electronics programs using the followup information as a means of validating and improving the curriculum. (Author/BP)

How this law affects vocational educators, and how they should prepare for the rigid enforcement that is sure to come, is the main concern of this article. (Editor)

Six regional curriculum coordination centers in the National Network for Curriculum Coordination in Vocational-Technical Education help prevent duplication of instructional materials development, according to the author, who describes the network structure and its functions in coordinating state and local efforts. (MF)