In the media
Many national media outlets have spotlighted the work and impact of Teach For America corps members and alumni and the success of the organization as a whole. Included below are excerpts from recent coverage discussing Teach For America's impact:
BusinessWeek
"Best Places to Launch a Career"
September 3, 2009
In BusinessWeek's fourth annual ranking of the top U.S. employers for young professionals entering the workforce, Teach For America holds the No. 7 spot and is the only nonprofit on the list.
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ABC: Good Morning America
"Teach For America Grows Up"
May 31, 2009
This week, Teach For America announced that it has accepted 4,100 new teachers for its incoming corps of teachers, a record number for the organization that is the now the top employer for graduates from Brown, Georgetown, Vanderbilt and a dozen others top schools.
In one of the worst job markets in decades, the organization received more than 35,000 applications from college seniors this year, making their selection process more selective than Ivy League colleges such as Harvard and Yale -- which both had 11 percent of their senior classes apply for teaching positions with the organization.
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CNN
"Teaching corps attracts recent graduates"
May 28, 2009
CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports on Teach For America's record growth and why thousands of people are applying to the program.
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The Associated Press
"More college grads join Teach For America"
May 28, 2009
Despite the belt-tightening, some communities expect an influx of new teachers from the program, especially in rural areas. South Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta will have more than double the number of recruits this year.
In Mississippi, state schools chief Hank Bounds asked Teach for America for at least 200 new teachers. Bounds believes the program's high-achieving graduates will play an important role in turning around his state's struggling schools.
Children suffer from poverty in Mississippi at a greater rate than the national average. And fourth-graders there trail the nation and region in reading and math, though they have made gains since 2003, according to the Southern Regional Education Board.
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