"State of the Art" Symposia The Division of Chemical Education has embarked on a series of symposia, presented at National Meetings, on certain rapidly developing areas of chemistry. In general the symposia are designed to bring critical information and ideas to a state where i t may he used by teachers immediately. All symposia will have a strong pedagogical emphasis and will involve skilled expositors who will spend a major part of their presentation on background material so that a teacher familiar with mainstream chemistry will he able to understand and use the information presented in the symposium. I t is expected that there will be a coherence in the entire oroeram. such that the later oaoers will build an the foundations laid in the first oaoers. T L ~s&i& often does not diffuse into standard tkxthooks a t a hieh rate. I t is anticioated ,~ .matter of the State nf ihe Art Svmwsia , that by careful r n d i n a t i o n herween thea\n,po~~om
