A Profession in a Hurry: The Need for Standards

Abstract

Special education programs have grown very rapidly in the past two decades. Busy special educators have been thrust into the role of spearheading new modes of operation for the remainder of the educational enterprise. This hurried pace of development and leadership has involved some neglect of quality standards. In this context, CEC's policy statement on professional standards, adopted in Toronto in April, 1966, is discussed, with emphasis upon the inevitability of gradualness in developing and regulating standards and upon the importance of continuing activities in the standards field.