Author discusses the four components of planning: need, interest, organization, and accountability as they relate to an alternative school. (Editor)

Discusses the role of the Office of Staff and Organization Development of Miami-Dada Junior College-North in coordinating the professional growth of their staff. (Editor/RK)

Describes an exemplary project in career education in South Carolina. (GB)

The agricultural teacher is responsible for providing a program that will meet the agricultural education needs of all the people in the community. (Author)

Traces the development of a military training course in basic electronics which could serve as a model in any educational field. (Editor/SB)

Management by objective is the key--cooperation with other vocational services the watchword. (Editor)

Directors of the extracurriculum on campuses, have the responsibility for structuring experiences more carefully and distinguishing their value from the goals and values of the traditional programs of student activities. They will have to prepare themselves more carefully to assume educational leadership of the extracurriculum to gain the respect…

Describes the contract principle applied to planning students'"four-year itinerary in the world of ideas." (Editor)

Describes the development of a seagoing vocational program for underachievers. (SB)

Purposes of student personnel work should be stated in specific behavioral goals for students, arrived at through staff and student interaction. Without specific direction student personnel work will continue to lumber along, an anachronistic appendage in higher education, until some educational crisis forces its whimpering demise. (Author)

Accountability is both highly complex and highly sensitive, say these writers, who feel that it is not yet technically feasible, other than in a piecemeal sense. A list of the stages through which a total accountability system must develop are presented here. (Editor/RK)