Teach For America

...education reformers who, having seen challenging conditions in urban classrooms, dreamed up such innovations as charter schools and Teach for America. Along the way, these activists had to elbow their way around established interest groups...

In this article: Michael Capuano, Stephen Pagliuca, Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Martha Coakley, Ivy League, and Iraq War

...who helped her put together the plan. She said she would like to see an expansion of loan reimbursement programs like Teach for Texas and Teach for America. She also would like every college and university in the state to offer a version of...

In this article: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas, Rick Perry, Margaret Spellings, Rod Paige, Plano, and University of Texas

...this morning, was married until a couple years ago to D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee. It was an amicable-enough split -- Huffman, a Teach for America executive and former lawyer, moved from Colorado to D.C. in 2007 when Rhee took the job...

In this article: Washington, D.C., Sacramento, and Colorado

...of these companies admitted, "There were no jobs created. It was just shuffling around of the funds. " USA Today discovered that the Teach for America program misattributed 1,300 jobs to the stimulus; in fact, an unrelated government grant...

In this article: The Dallas Morning News, East Central Technical College, The Boston Globe, White House, Washington Examiner, and California State University

...jobs on Capitol Hill but was told she was overqualified. She sought a teaching position in the D.C. public schools through the Teach for America program but said she was rejected because of a flood of four times the usual number...

In this article: Unemployment, Recession, Howard University, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., and Economics

...a new teacher at Isaac Bildersee Middle School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Cooper has his own classroom after a brief six-week training program with Teach for America. TFA says it has raised the standards for teachers by recruiting the best and the...

In this article: NPR

...to be our ticket out of the wilderness. I lost track of what I'm supposed to be angry about, and in the meanwhile I also lost another weekend of football. Am I little bit disillusioned? You betcha. The writer is a Teach for America executive.

In this article: Sarah Palin, Medicare, Mayo Clinic, Facebook, Department of Homeland Security, and Sean Hannity

...that I was never less capable. But even with support from both of my parents, I remember thinking I wasn't good enough. I joined Teach For America because I realized I had the opportunity to serve as an example of success for students...

In this article: University of Michigan and Houston