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Overview-Past and present..

Guidance and counseling program development...

The support of guidance and counseling programs has been stimulated.
The counselor-student ratio has improved substantially........

Students are attending college and postsecondary vocational-technical
schools in greater numbers.--

The school retention rate has increased..

State education agency guidance staffs have been improved.
Standardized testing to identify abilities has been stimulated..

Evaluation of guidance and counseling programs has been carried out
on an increasing scale..

The future of guidance and counseling

Actual status and projected needs for secondary school counselors in terms of numbers and expenditures..

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Actual status and projected needs for junior college counselors in terms of numbers and expenditures--

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Actual status and projected needs for elementary school counselors in terms of numbers and expenditures_

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Appendix A. Statistical data:

Table 1. Proportion of National Defense Education Act funds expended for title V...

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Table 2. Total expenditures for State-approved title V-A programs by source (Federal, State, and local), 1958-59 through 1965-66Table 3. Increase in full-time equivalent counselors and guidance supervisors in public secondary and elementary schools and junior colleges, 1958-59 through 1965–66--

Table 4. Number of State-approved, local title V-A guidance and counseling programs, by average daily membership, 1959-60, 1962-63, and 1965-66__.

Table 5. Number of students attending title V-B counseling and guidance institutes, 1959-60 through 1966–67. Table 6. Number and percentage of total public school enrollment tested at least once in 1958-59, 1962-63, and 1965-66- - Table 7. Ratio of full-time-equivalent State guidance supervisors to public elementary and secondary students and full-time-equivalent local school guidance personnel, 1958-59, 1962-63, and 1964-65--Table 8. Number and percent of increase in public and nonpublic school enrollments, 1958-59, 1962-63, and 1965–66... Appendix B. Statements on NDEA, title V-A, from State department of education personnel..

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Appendix C. Title V NDEA text, Senate report, and conference report excerpts...

Appendix D. Title V NDEA regulations and guidelines-

Appendix E. Excerpts from a manual for the preparation of proposals.
Appendix F. Instructions for preparing a State plan..

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AN INTERIM REPORT

ON

GUIDANCE, COUNSELING, AND TESTING (National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title V-A, as Amended)

by

Don D. Twiford, Chief,

Guidance and Personnel
Services Branch

and Staff

May 18, 1967

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