Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 2, Working Without a Net: How New Teachers From Three Prominent Alternate Route Programs Describe Their First Year on the Job

Working Without a Net provides additional results from the new-teacher survey conducted by Public Agenda. It focuses on new teachers in high-need schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach For America, Troops to Teachers, and The New Teacher Project.