Discusses licensure and credentialing in rehabilitation counseling in the context of larger professional and social movements. Introduces critical aspects affecting licensure movement for rehabilitation counselors; provides overview of history of counselor licensure and participation of rehabilitation counselors; and describes issues current…

This chapter considers the need for professional certification of instructional developers and describes the work of various organizations in this area. The differences between certification, accreditation, and licensure are examined, and the certification efforts of the Division of Instructional Development (DID) of the Association for…

Approximately 21,000 elementary school principals in charge of the several administrative units of public education represent a large proportion of the school administrators. They are responsible for 21 million students out of the 27 million attending public elementary and secondary schools and colleges in the United States, and two-thirds of the…

An increasing number of States and Territories have been revising or developing certification requirements for guidance workers as a result of study and recommendation by professional committees. To make these requirements effective, official action has been taken by Stage boards of education or by legislation. This bulletin is a revision of…

Demands on guidance workers in secondary schools are constantly increasing. Certification requirements for these workers are continually being revised as their responsibilities become more sharply defined. Since the appearance of the 1960 edition of "Guidance Workers Certification Requirements" (Bulletin 1960, No. 14), 21 States and…

In previous reports attention was called to the rapid improvements in medical education in the United States, secured through a campaign which was begun by the American Medical Association in 1904. At the beginning of the campaign, the number of medical schools in this country exceeded the total in all the rest of the world. There was clearly an…

Looks at the historical development of school librarian training in Canada and Great Britain; examines types of institutions with training programs and program content; compares the librarian's role in the two countries and isolates factors that determined those roles; and highlights recent difficulties, developments, and movement toward consensus…

This bulletin on requirements by States and Territories for the certification of school librarians was prepared to provide a compilation of current certification regulations for school librarians and a summary of practices in formulating these regulations. The requirements for each State were obtained from either the State school library…

The work of the visiting teacher in the country's school system is rapidly becoming a professional service of significance in the realization of the objectives of education, namely, complete development of the whole child. Like many new services, this phase of pupil personnel work has had a Topsy-like growth without adequate safeguards as to…