Attracting, rewarding, and keeping quality teachers

The quality of American education was severely questioned in A Nation at Risk, released by the National Commission on Excellence in Education in 1983. Approximately 30 national reports concerned with educational reform have been published in recent years and nearly all have had one thing in common: the belief that excellence must be rediscovered and returned to our American schools. Cross (1984) pointed out that the 50 states had commissioned almost 300 task forces and had sent them out in search of excellence