Teach For America is the national teacher corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors and cultural backgrounds who commit two years to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools.
Teach for America (TFA), nonprofit educational organization formed in 1990 to address underachievement in American public schools. Teach for America (TFA) was founded by Wendy Kopp, who first conceived of the idea in her senior thesis at Princeton Univer
"Every year Teach For America recruits thousands of emerging diverse leaders to teach in high need classrooms across the country. As these new educators prepare to lead classrooms where every student has the opportunity to learn, lead and thrive, they spend months training and earning the ...
This qualitative, multi-case comparative study analyzes how 15 recent Teach For America alumni describe the process--and influences--of deciding what career choice to make three to five months after completing their initial two-year teaching commitment. After conducting, coding and analyzing 38 hours...
“Teach For America’s vision is that one day every child in the country will have the opportunity to obtain an excellent education.” Sandeep Chellani, CIO, Teach For America A process to onboard teachers faster Each year, in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, Teach For America supports hu...
Train suggests concentration on particular skills intended to fit a person for a desired role: trained the vocational students to be computer technicians. School often implies an arduous training process: "He took young Deanie under his wing and schooled him in the art of ambidextrous gunplay" (...
Children can, in many cases, register on our website. In this process it is possible that we may ask the child to provide certain information for notification and security purposes, including a parent or guardian’s email address, the child’s first name and gender, the child’s username,...
BEIJING, China–October was a month of frenzied activity in the Teach For China Beijing office to prepare for a visit last week from Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach For America and Teach For All. This trip, Ms. Kopp’s second to China, was planned as part of an effort to raise...
Teach for America (TFA)was a solution to a problem it helped create. Educators have been leaving the profession for decades due to poor salary, poor working conditions, heavy expectations and lack of tools or respect. So Wendy Kopp, when in Princeton, created a program to fast track non-ed...
Teach for India is an alternative teacher credentialing program in India that is part of Teach for All, a global organization with strong ties to Teach for America, the American alternative credentialing program. This exploratory study employs institutional discourse analysis to raise questions about th...