The document is divided into two approximately equal sections: The first is the annual report on the career education effort in Iowa in 1973; the second is devoted to the reaction of the State Board of Public Instruction to the Council recommendations for 1972. The two sections are divided by a page listing actions which were taken in Iowa to implement the council recommendations contained in the 1972 report. The 1973 report is composed of four summarized council observations of needs and four recommendations; the sequencing of the recommendations is intended to suggest an order that might be adopted for logical, universal implementation of the career education concept. The four recommendations are: (1) that a State definition for the term "career education" be developed; (2) that a plan be developed to coordinate efforts to infuse the concept in all teacher and administrator preparation programs; (3) that State curriculum guides be rewritten to include the career education concept; and (4) that a State coordinating committee develop a plan encouraging universal implementation of the concept. The second section lists the council's 1972 recommendations with a paragraph of comment by the State Department of Public Instruction following each of the 29 recommendations. (AJ)