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…

Education is the process of handing down to the rising generation the wisdom and experience of the generations that have gone before. Now, as mankind is hesitatingly turning into new paths here and there it is all the more necessary that the most careful attention be given to the points of departure and the reason for departing from the old ones.…

Numerous concerns about the supply of qualified teachers have been voiced by public and private administrators during recent years. Whether the supply of qualified teachers is adequate can be determined only by examining both the supply of teachers and the demand for teachers. This report provides information about one source of teachers, namely…

A faculty must think effectivelyto build a congruent meaningful equivalency testing effort as an intimate part of its curriculum. No faculty should feel embarrassed if its conclusion, after careful assessment, is that it cannot or should not offer equivalency testing. Each faculty should study equivalency testing and its feasibility. (Author/AJ)

Movement toward a more flexible health manpower regulation system encourages these educational improvements: imaginative implementation of multiple entry points; training programs which provide for upward and lateral mobility; more meaningful competency examinations (toward the development of national standards); and developing continuing…

Considered teaching effectiveness, teaching competencies, teacher certification, and the development of policy regarding the challenges posed by the competency-based approach to teacher education. (Author/RK)

Describes the national movement toward competency-based and field-centered teacher training programs. Contends that these programs should have great impact on education. (Author/JN)

Combining the familiar unit lesson plans of the 1950's with the behavioral objectives that were first emphasized in the later 1960's, competency-based teacher education is a refinement that will permit individualization and personalization of teacher training programs and still provide structure for these programs. (Author)

Discusses the difficulties of agreeable certification procedures for educational programs that are innovative and, at the same time, experimental. (RK)

Discusses the evaluation of teacher competence as a requirement for certification. (Author/RK)

Summary of the characteristics of 3, 4, and 5 year-old children in the United States, and State laws on permissive school attendance age and State aid for kindergartens. (MF)

Recommends a new conception of "educational personnel, which would reveal the irrelevance of such traditional dualisms as instructional-noninstructional, professional-nonprofessional, and preservice-inservice and would free educators to concentrate on more vital issues, several of which are discussed. (JES)