Twelve research reviews in this issue pertain to exemplary programs and residential schools, and are organized under these topics: (1) Guidance, including discussion of research reports relating to vocational guidance in secondary schools, a junior high school course in occupational opportunities, student personnel services for area vocational-technical schools, and an information system for vocational decisions, (2) Cooperative Education Programs, treating a national conference on cooperative vocational education and concurrent work-education programs in 50 states, (3) Exemplary Projects, discussing occupational training for school-alienated youth, a national conference on exemplary programs, and occupational information, selection, and preparation in a secondary school, and (4) Residential Schools, including essential factors contributing to their operation, a national conference report, and a discussion of a boys' residential youth center. "Plain Talk," a continuing column by the author, stresses the importance of vocational educator involvement in development of exemplary manpower programs related to the vocational education effort. Twenty-two additional references and four document source listings are cited in the bibliography. (DM)