The Nation - News from Nov. 11, 1985

Nationwide school statistics show that more and better teachers are being recruited, the Carnegie Foundation said in updating its 1983 analysis. The foundation president, Ernest L. Boyer, said that the review found “grounds for cautious hope” that teaching standards are rising. The report’s author, C. Emily Feistritzer of the National Center for Education Information, said that in the last two years, teacher pay raises have outpaced inflation. She said the latest data shows “slow, but steady progress.”