Teach For America has chosen TheCorporatePlaybook.com to help leverage and support their current national recruiting efforts.
Nationally headquartered in New York City, Teach for America has proven to be one of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations whose mission is "to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort." The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp, after she developed the idea to help eliminate educational inequity in the United States for her senior thesis at Princeton University.
Since its beginning in 1990, more than 14,000 corps members have completed their commitment to TFA. In its first year, TFA placed only 500 teachers. In 2007, the organization received applications from "11 percent of the senior classes at Amherst and Spellman; 10 percent of those at University of Chicago and Duke; and more than eight percent of the graduating seniors at Notre Dame, Princeton and Wellesley." Additionally, close to 18,000 individuals applied for an incoming corps of 2,900.
TFA recruits recent college graduates to teach for two years in schools in low-income communities throughout the United States. The goal of TFA is for its corps members not only to make a short-term impact on their students, but also to become lifelong leaders in pursuing educational equality. Corps members do not have to be certified teachers, although certified teachers may apply. Uncertified corps members receive alternative certification through coursework taken while completing the program. Corps members attend an intensive 5-week summer institute to prepare for their commitment. TFA teachers are placed in schools in urban areas such as New York City and Houston, as well as in rural places like eastern North Carolina and the Mississippi Delta. They then serve for two years, and are usually placed in schools with other Teach For America corps members. TFA teachers are full-fledged faculty members at their schools, receiving the normal school district salary and benefits as well as a modest "education voucher" (which can be used to pay for credentialing courses, cover previous student loans, or fund further education after the two-year commitment).
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