comprehensive and integrated human capital system in which instructional goals are carefully aligned with teacher recruitment, development, and retention. The authors are acutely aware of the many professional opportunities facing our most talented college graduates, and have structured a career-oriented plan capable of competing with these opportunities. The next volume in this series will analyze ways to improve the quality of the teaching force in this country, with a focus to using compensation policy to achieve this goal. Sean P. Corcoran is an assistant professor of educational economics at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Joydeep Roy is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. His areas of focus include economics of education, education policy, and public and labor economics. About the Authors Susan Moore Johnson is the Pforzheimer Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she served as the academic dean from 1993 to 1999. As director of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, Johnson studies teachers' work and careers. She has published her research in books and journals, including Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , American Educational Research Journal , and Teachers College Record . Johnson is a member of the National Academy of Education. John P. Papay is an advanced doctoral student in the Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education concentration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research assistant with the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers. A former high school