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...safety school for Eleanor G. Brennan ’02-’03. If she’s lucky, she’ll end up teaching there or another public high school in the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans or New Mexico, among other places, through Teach For America (TFA), a non-profit organization that places recent grads in teaching positions in some of the country’s most underachieving, understaffed schools. Last year, TFA saw its applicant pool triple from the usual 5,000 to a whopping 14,000, all vying for only 2,000 positions. The sudden...
...notes. The organization has seen increased involvement by celebrities like Peter Jennings and First Lady Laura Bush, who participated in teaching for a week. And the organization will be the primary beneficiary of a PGA tour event. With this growing prominence and the increasingly choosy selection process, TFA now offers something that is familiar to Harvard students: a competition for a spot in a prominent and prestigious institution...
...fact, getting a teaching job without going through Teach For America is not too difficult. Regarding the increase in applications to—and rejections from—TFA, Robert F. Colvin ’02, who applied to TFA last spring, says, “I don’t think it makes very much sense, because a lot of schools in this country desperately need teachers. You can get a teaching job very easily.” Even without a teaching certificate, students can still find assignments in private schools. Colvin notes that many who have not followed...
...TFA as a two-year extension on my decision,” she adds...
Windt, who considered doing TFA, opted instead to teach at a school in Boston, near the communities she has worked in for the past four years...