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...founder of Teach For America (TFA), one of the largest single employers of Harvard students at graduation, visited the campus yesterday to encourage seniors to spend their next two years teaching in low-income communities...
...idea behind the strategy is consonant with TFA’s mission: letting one Harvard senior waffle on TFA is like letting one kid in a TFA classroom fall through the cracks. It can’t happen...
...TFA is one of the largest single employers of Harvard students at graduation—a testament to the company’s prestige and its recruitment effort. “The TFA teachers I know are overachievers on their campuses. They just try, just like consulting kids. They are go-getters,” McSorley says. “But they also felt that call to do something with some heart...
...perhaps most importantly, TFA has built a reputation. Within six months of its founding, TFA appeared on the front page of The New York Times. In the past year, it’s been in articles in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and in half a dozen national magazines. And the corps advertises that many investment banks and consulting firms, including Bain, McKinsey, and Morgan Stanley, allow students to defer their jobs instead of turning the dollar down...
Kopp writes in her book that the corps has succeeded because it offers a little “idealism for the Me generation.” Between that and its pointed recruitment tactics, TFA has become known as a way for overachievers to give back without necessarily giving anything up—and it’s giving the corporations a run for their money...