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...stressful” job market.Meredith D. Boak, the TFA recruiter who covers Harvard, said that the financial crisis allowed the program “an opportunity to excite many more people.” She added that increased interest in the program is fitting in well with TFA??s expansion plans.Furthermore, Boak said she thought that students who had been previously interested in a career in financial affairs might be excited to take the highly demanding role of teaching for TFA.“People who are attracted to business or finance might be attracted to TFA because...
...organization, was introduced by Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCarthy who stated that “more undergrads than ever are seriously considering Teach for America.” After the introduction, Kopp spoke enthusiastically for half an hour about the 18-year-old program. According to TFA??s mission statement, the non-profit institution tries to “eliminate educational inequality by enlisting our nations most promising future leaders in the effort.” TFA works by training and overseeing a core of high-achieving recent college graduates to work as public school teachers...
...Still, TFA??s most appealing aspect—that it allows students who are unsure of their future to provide a valuable service—is also potentially its greatest weakness. Critics often question whether a short foray into the classroom can really achieve the organization’s oft-stated goal of closing the racial and income achievement gaps in education. And in locations such as New Orleans, which has become a major center of TFA activity following Hurricane Katrina, local conditions make this task even more challenging...
...Although Kozol argues that TFA??s two-year placement perpetuates the already-high turnover at public schools, he also praises the program for recruiting new teachers to low-income districts...
...defer job offers for two years in order to teach with TFA. But few follow through with their business aspirations. “It’s a very small portion of our actual alumni who are in business, around four percent,” says Joshua Z. Biber, TFA??s Boston director for new site development. Biber reports that before joining TFA, ten percent of corps members considered teaching after college. But two-thirds of corps members continue teaching following their two years in TFA, with one-third of alumni working in low-income communities.Still, Biber recognizes...