Teach for America is an organization founded because of a startling statistic--that only 10% of children living in poverty will graduate from college. It's the real no child get's left behind program, because committed teaching is the only way that children will have an equalization of their opportunity to go to college --not rote memorization of test answers. Teach for America sends people to teach in some of the poorest neighborhoods in the United States. Right now there are over 7,000 teach for America teachers, most of them recent college graduates who are still finishing teacher course work, but took a crash course on basics. Others are already professional teachers who choose to dedicate two years to teaching in poor areas. Right now my niece, Sarah is one of the Teach for America student in New Orleans. Here students are from nearby housing projects. She reports that not only are they poor, but universally they experience violence in the...
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