*TeacherPersistence; Teacher Recruitment; *Teaching

This study desCribes the changes in demographic characteristiCs- of beginning, teachers who entered the profession,between 195657 and 1976. ExistingJiterature:on,beginningrteachers is examined to construct an imageof-tbe.changes..that have-occurred 4' among. those choosing teaching careers.. National and statewide Samples:are. reviewed; howeVer, demographicfactors such as age, sex, race, and marital status are described only in national terms. A:review-of.' the literature on changes 'incharacteristios includes. information ons 11) age; (2) sex; (3) race; (4) marital status; (5)occupational inheritance; (6):commitment to-teaching-as.a career; (7.0'idealism-and' locus of.control; (8) academic ability andQrecruitment into teaching occupatio9;:,(9).college selectivity, grade point Average,, and career commitment; (10) attrition-among teachers selected into the occupation; and (11) academic ability and.attrition- of teachers from educational Occupations. A list:of.sut;-samples and tables,. of the Nat,iobal Longitudinal Study,-that will be examined in a final"-report,is included. (40): Reproduconssupplied-by EARS "are the best that can be made. from the original dotument. ** * '*#-********A******