As shifting employment opportunities and reform movements alter the U.S. education landscape, one organization has received steadily increasing support from lawmakers. Teach for America (TFA) began as ...

contract and TFA teachers couldn’t be happier. a slap in the face to teachers with college degrees. The chair of the Seattle School Board’s curriculum and instruction committee had recommended ending ...

SETTING UP FOR A SUCCESSFUL DAY, IT’S A REWARDING FEELING FOR ORLANDO GORDON. HE’S A FIRST YEAR, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE MATH TEACHER AT BERKELEY ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL. I LIKE THE COMMUNITY THAT ...

Kimberly Burke, of Ferguson, a 2015 corps member of Teach for America, assists Talasia Jackson (center), 12, of Jennings, during a College Prep Academy class at Jennings Junior High School on ...

The University of Minnesota announced Wednesday it will partner with Teach for America to create an alternative teacher training program beginning this summer. The decision comes after months of ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Teach for America Detroit is taking a high-performing ...

For years, Teach For America has been criticized as a vanity project of the elite: a highly selective two-year foray into teaching the underprivileged for Ivy League graduates right before they enter ...

In 1989, when Wendy Kopp proposed the idea in her senior thesis at Princeton of quickly training outstanding college graduates to teach in high-poverty schools for at least two years, her adviser told ...

At Tuesday night’s public forum and school board meeting, concern for the future of the Teach for America program in the St. Louis Public Schools was a key point of discussion. An erroneous ...

A network of Teach for America alumni and corps members is organizing in Chicago this weekend as part of the national Free Minds, Free People conference organized by the Education for Liberation ...