Solving the Problem of Teacher Quality, Part 1.

Abstract

FEWER THAN HALF of the teacher education graduates in 1976 had Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores as high as the aver age high school senior's score four years earlier.1 That was the good news. The bad news was that school districts hired these beginning teachers. Worse yet, the best of those who were hired soon left teaching. Nor did the SAT scores of the entering college class in 1982 promise an improve