5,200 NEW TEACH FOR AMERICA TEACHERS JOIN EFFORTS TO EXPAND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY NATIONWIDE

Teach for America:

Teach For America announced today that its incoming corps of 5,200 new teachers will enter the nation's highest-need schools this fall. This year's corps is the largest in Teach For America's history. In the upcoming school year, 9,300 first- and second-year corps members will reach 600,000 students in 43 regions across 34 states and the District of Columbia, including new sites in the Appalachia region of Kentucky, Oklahoma City, Seattle, and the Pee Dee region of South Carolina.

Teach For America's new corps members are a diverse group of top graduates of colleges and universities from across the country. One-third identify as people of color, including 12 percent who are African American and 8 percent who are Hispanic. Twenty-two percent are the first in their family to graduate from college, and nearly one-third received Pell Grants. Twenty-three percent are graduate students or professionals.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 12, 2011 1:58 AM
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