Teach For America

In America today, a gap in academic achievement separates kids in low-income communities from their higher-income peers. Only eight percent of students growing up in poverty graduate from college by age 24, compared to 80 percent of students in more affluent areas. This limits life options, affects families and communities, and has significant social and economic implications for our country. It doesn’t have to be this way. We know it’s possible to give all kids a great education and the countless opportunities that come with it.

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates, who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity. Although 16 million American children face the extra challenges of poverty, an increasing body of evidence shows they can achieve at the highest levels.

This year, 10,000 corps member are teaching in 46 regions across the country, while nearly 28,000 Teach For America alumni continue working from inside and outside the field of education for the fundamental changes necessary to ensure educational excellence and equity.

                      

NEXT Application Deadline: Friday, November 2^nd, 2012

Apply to the 2013 Teach For America corps.

Learn more about the impact we are having right here in providing excellent education in places in like Pennsylvania.

State your interest in meeting with an alum by telling us more about yourself here.

For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org. or email Pennsylvania’s representative Sara Metzger at sara.metzger@teachforamerica.org.

Full salary and benefits. Federal student loans deferred. All majors and career backgrounds.