New Teachers’ Experiences of Hiring: Preliminary Findings from a Four-State Study

This paper was prepared for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2003. Research for this paper was conducted under the auspices of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and under the supervision of Professor Susan Moore Johnson. Funding was provided by the Spencer Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, although the analysis and conclusions reported here are solely those of the author.