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Teach for America sends college grads to serve two-year teaching stints at schools in underserved communities around the country, from the inner city schools to rural ones. While TFA is choosy with its volunteers, those accepted into the corps can expect an intensive teaching experience with a community of students eager to learn.
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A nonprofit institution, Teach For America is an alternative teacher recruitment organization that places educators for two years in low-income schools in cities throughout the country. The “corps members” go through a summer training program that helps prepare them for the classroom and their subject area.
Launched in 1990, Teach For America has taken more than 680,000 applications, and trained 68,000 teachers, who in turn have taught more than 10 million American schoolchildren. Teach For America recruits primarily high-achieving college seniors; applicants undergo a thorough selection process, with an acceptance rate of roughly 12 percent, comprising two rounds: an online application and a daylong in-person interview. After taking Teach For America’s five-week training course, the potential teacher has to find their own teaching...
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