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Hart Research Associates, Inc.  \nFebruary 2010  \nconducted on behalf of  \nCareer Changersin the Classroom: A National Portrait  \nConducted on behalf of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation  \nby  \nHart Research Associates February 2010  \nHart Research Associates 1724 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009  \n202-234-5570  \nfor  \nThe Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 5 Vaughn Drive, Suite 300 y Princeton, NJ 08540 [609-452-7007](609-452-7007 y www.woodrow.org)[ y](609-452-7007 y www.woodrow.org)[ www.woodrow.org](609-452-7007 y www.woodrow.org)  \nTo obtain hard copies of this report, please email [communications@woodrow.org](communications@woodrow.org). Copies may also be downloaded from the Web site of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation at [http://www.woodrow.org](http://www.woodrow.org).  \nCover photos (left to right):  \nWoodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows Alan Stuckey, Tammy Vermillion, and David Johnson with students at Ben Davis High School, Wayne Township, Indiana. Courtesy D. Todd Moore (photographer) for the University of Indianapolis.  \nTable of Contents  \nForeword ......................................................................................................................................... i  \nIntroduction .................................................................................................................................. iii  \nI. Methodology ..................................................................................................................... 1  \nII. Executive Summary .........................................................................................................2  \nIII. Profile of Career Changers in the Classroom ..............................................................7  \nIV. The Appeal of Teaching ................................................................................................ 11  \nV. Work Experience and Impact of Salary...................................................................... 15  \nVI. Evaluation of Preparation Programs ........................................................................... 18  \nVII. Support System for Teachers ......................................................................................25  \nVIII. Looking Ahead ................................................................................................................27  \nThis volume on teachers who come to the classroom in midcareer is the third report in a series on the potential, promise, experience, and needs of career changers who are teaching in America’s classrooms today. It is based on a survey of a cross-section of such individuals conducted by Hart Research Associates in 2009.  \nThe earlier reports, released by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in fall 2008, included Encore Performances: Tapping the Potential of Midcareer and Second-Career Teachers, a review of the literature on career-changers who teach; and Teaching as a Second Career, the results of an earlier survey by Hart Research Associates that sought to determine what it would take to attract accomplished professionals from other careers into teaching.  \nThe first two reports informed and complemented the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship, the Foundation’s signature program. This report will as well. Created in 2007, the Teaching Fellowship builds on Woodrow Wilson’s sixty-five-year commitment to strengthen American education by bringing talented individuals into education careers. The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship seeks both to recruit and prepare new teachers withoutstanding records of achievement and to transform the college and university programs that prepare them. 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