Teach for America
Teach For America is a non-profit organization in the United States that aims to build a national movement to eradicate educational injustice. It also places outstanding university graduates as temporary teachers in schools in low-income areas for two years .
In 2010, around 4,500 program participants were selected from over 46,000 applicants. Among other things, 17 percent of all Harvard graduates applied to participate. In the meantime, independent studies have documented the success of the concept.
The organization was founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, who Time counts among the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
In 2002, Teach First was founded in the UK , an organization with similar goals. In the meantime, with Teach For All, there is a network that supports the establishment of independent organizations in other countries, for example Teach First Germany and Teach For Austria .
See also
Web links
- Teach for America
- Teach first
- Teach For All
- Teach First Germany
- Teach for America: Elite corps or costing older teachers jobs? , USA Today , July 29, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Teach For America press release ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 121 kB)
- ^ Harvard press release
- ↑ Study by the Urban Institute (English)
- ↑ Study by Mathematica Policy Research (English) ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 314 kB)
- ↑ Impacts of Teacher Preparation on Student Test Scores in North Carolina 2020 ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Time article on Wendy Kopp (English)
- ^ Homepage of Teach First in Great Britain
- ↑ Teach For All homepage
- ^ Homepage of Teach First Germany
