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Across the Yard from recruiting meetings at the Faculty Club, Teach for America (TFA), an AmeriCorps program, is showing some students that there are worthy careers outside of investment banking and consulting...
Information sessions for TFA are not your typical recruiting mingle-fests. That's just one of the things about the AmeriCorps program that students found out on Tuesday, when two TFA alumni came to Phillips Brooks House to discuss the program with prospective applicants...
Perhaps the biggest question mark hanging over the program is whether TFA teachers will stay in the profession once their two years are up. Some youngsters clearly see the experience as a way station before graduate school or a higher-paying career. TFA supporters downplay the issue of retention. They point out that TFA alumni will be forceful advocates for education whatever their ultimate profession. "These kids are going to be terrific assets to schools whether they teach or not," says Robin Hogen, senior director of Merck & Co., which gave $100,000 to TFA...
Founder Kopp, for one, does not intend to make TFA her career, although she would like to see the organization become permanent. That appears unlikely without government support. Philanthropies rarely fund causes in perpetuity, and many of the current grants expire this year...
...does not seem worried. After all, she has already achieved what many thought impossible: the recruitment of some of the best college graduates to teach in some of the nation's neediest schools. Whether they live up to the high expectations set for them remains to be seen. But TFA seems to have , proved the enduring allure of teaching -- and of youthful altruism...