Research shows that many students entering teacher education programs are deficient in writing skills. This article focuses on how to develop, administer, and score a writing sample. (Author/CB)

Guidelines for planning an interorganizational collaborative arrangement between colleges or departments of education and school districts are discussed. The guidelines, generated by the Department of Education Planning, Policy, and Administration at the University of Maryland, in cooperation with five Baltimore-area schools, stress shared…

An internship program designed to familiarize preservice teachers with the working mechanisms of the Individually Guided Education method of instruction is discussed. (LH)

The successful establishment of a nationwide system of IGE networks has greatly facilitated the widespread use of the IGE method of teaching. (LH)

Teachers should develop a communication system in order to gather performance information on handicapped students entering a regular classroom. (JD)

The author constructs a question taxonomy he feels is superior to Bloom's system in its comprehensiveness and language delineation basis, and advocates the use of both systems in conjunction (since they have differing purposes) to improve questioning techniques in as many ways as possible. (MB)