Over the last twenty years, Teach For America has led 21,000 of the nation’s brightest young people into public education in low-income communities, where roughly 60% of them have stayed. Less than half of traditionally-trained teachers stay more than two years in the profession when they start in low-income schools, and study after study has shown Teach For America teachers (called “corps members”) produce better academic outcomes (called “learning”) than other new teachers.
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