This issue of the Multi-State Consortium on Performance-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) contains: (1) competency based teacher education and certification activities at six Utah universities and by the Utah State Board of Education; (2) the Texas State Attorney General's opinion on the lack of power on the part of the State Board of Education to require all teacher preparation programs to be competency based; (3) an excerpt from a speech by Dan Ganeles, SUNY/Albany on "CBTE: Definitions, Criteria"; (4) a discussion on the use of instructional mini-lessons as criteria measures for evaluating a PBTE proqram; (5) humanistic strategies for implementing PBTE, performance based evaluation, and teacher accountability standards; (6) a humorous look at the next educational fad:"Course-Credit Teacher Education" (CCTE); and (7) a report on the Hofstra-Manhasset project investigating performance evaluation. (MJB)