The AAPT‐AIP regional counselor program a new cooperative effort in physics education

The American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics have jointly established the Regional Counselor Program in Physics to promote local cooperation for better physics teaching. Professional societies in physics and local educational authorities have found it necessary to obtain the active help and advice of physicists who are familiar with local educational problems if significant progress is to be made in improving physics teaching and if the full benefits of national efforts are to be realized. The improvement of physics teaching in the schools requires local activity by physicists because precollege education is primarily a responsibility of the city, county, or state in the United States. However, many of the smaller colleges are also in need of help in their physics programs, and liaison between them and the national organizations in physics is in need of considerable improvement.