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October 28, 2006
Teach for America
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks | Filed under: Featured Nonprofit
Tapping into the idealism of college graudates, Teach for America puts recent grads on the front line of education. Teach for American recruits graduates from any field--teaching experience not required--and trains them to teach in a low-income classroom for two years.
The goal is to overcome the education gap. On average, half the students from low-income neighborhoods won't even graduate high school. Those who do manage to graduate have the same reading and math levels as eighth-grade students from high-income neighborhoods.
17,000 people have worked with Teach for America to change these troubling stats for more than 2.5 million students since it all began in 1988, thanks to another idealistic student--Princeton senior Wendy Kopp--who started Teach for America. She tells her story in the book One Day, All Children.
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