Abstract
Currently about thirty states have ad visory groups on teacher education and certification. Typically, these are extra- legal bodies, established by the chief state education agency to carry on con tinuous study of teacher education and certification programs and to make recommendations for changes in the legal requirements affecting these two areas. The establishment of such bodies is a relatively new development, the in tent of which is to provide a coopera tive, democratic means by which the state exercises a leadership role rather than an arbitrary legal one in teacher education and certification.
The California Council on Teacher Education is a good example of the functioning of this process.
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