Abstract
The Elementary School Journal Volume 86, Number 4 O 1986 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0013-5984/86/8604-0003$01.00 The status of the teaching profession has been the subject of many studies in recent years. These studies demonstrate that the academic ability of college students choosing teaching as a profession has declined over the past decade. In addition, although teaching has long attracted a disproportionately large number of college graduates with relatively low academic ability, this problem has worsened in recent years (Sykes, 1983). The importance of this problem is emphasized by empirical studies that demonstrate that students' scores
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