Article describes the results of a study which shows little evidence that formal education stimulates agricultural or industrial development. (Author/MM)

Describes the planning, content, and evaluation of a college credit course in which 12 industries provided lectures and tours for 25 science teachers. Suggests guidelines for developing similar programs. (PR)

Vocational student organizations are providing an indispensable element in manpower training, and if vocational educators can't see it, industry can. (Editor)

It seems that the U.S. is going to adopt the metric system of measurement. Although certain difficulties are anticipated, Britain has shown that major upheavals are unnecessary. (MF)

On converting industrial education programs to the metric system. (GB)

New system of adhesives and veneers expands range of joinery methods students can use in woodworking and cabinetry. (Editor)

Converting small displacement internal combustion engines to run on liquified petroleum gas and natural gas. (Editor)

This class project led to a solution for homeowners' pollution. (Editor)

Relates the need for acquainting students with social and economic consequences of technology's demands on products of the environment. (GB)

Discusses the value students receive from analyzing and diagnosing engines at work when using an engine or chasis dynamometer. (GR)

A flexible seven-quarter automotive program prepares students for jobs at whatever level they have reached before being compelled to stop school. (GR)