According to the recommendations from a panel of experts, teacher certification should be specific to each grade level.
This is likely to happen, but the industry so far has resisted the important step of having independent experts monitor the certification process.
To make sure that practitioners who treated genetic disorders were qualified to do so, Dr. Rimoin led a team of experts in developing certification tests and got medical genetics recognized as a full medical specialty in the 1990s.
In Brick Township, N.J., local officials have paid a mapping expert to obtain certification in floodplain technology to challenge the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new flood maps.
In protest, the town teamed up with neighboring Toms River to pay for a mapping expert to obtain certification in the advanced software used to measure flood plains.
Both training programs were conducted by V.L., a cardiologist expert with board certification in echocardiography and level 3 competence according to the American Society of Echocardiography Standards [8].
And Carroll was intent on confirming that suspicion using his training as a drug recognition expert, a controversial certification that some critics say can put innocent people in jail based on "guesswork".
19 Blinded assessors from all centres underwent training with an expert assessor, and certification was provided by AtCor.
But the only respondent to express substantial ignorance about all these crucial mappings, from premium purchase to ecosystem service delivery, was a (realistic) professional expert in marketing and certification.
Although the experts agree that fair trade certification initially helped to raise awareness around the injustices suffered by farmers, particularly those in developing countries, no expert interviewed said they thought the label is effectively addressing the problem it set out to solve.
