Sentences with phrase «top college graduates»

The idea was to send top college graduates to inner - city and rural schools that have historically struggled to recruit and retain quality teachers.

Top college graduates used to always go to law school or medical school.

TFA recruits top college graduates of all academic majors, career interests, and backgrounds who demonstrate achievement, leadership, perseverance, and a commitment to expanding opportunity for children in low - income areas.

Programs like Teach for America, which draw thousands of top college graduates from prestigious universities into the teaching profession, show that it is not an impossible feat.

While in graduate school in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), I made a decision that I?d happily make again: to join Teach For America (TFA), a national service program that recruits and trains top college graduates to teach for 2 years in low - income public schools.

That's the implication of a rigorous federally funded study released Sept. 10 that examines the impact of TFA and a second popular program, both of which quickly train and place top college graduates and career - changers in underresourced classrooms.

Starting school with a little more trepidation are first - time teachers from Teach For America — an organization that drafts top college graduates, provides 8 weeks of training, and sends them in to teaching in some of the nation's most troubled schools.

That many top college graduates hesitate to join a profession with low wages is no great surprise.

$ 2 million of the Endowment's grant will be used to support TFA, which recruits top college graduates to teach in high - need public schools.

It recruits top college graduates and becomes a national model for the profession.

2) Teach for America recruits top college graduates, trains them and then places them in high - poverty schools.

The report also urges that teaching be treated as a quality profession on par with other jobs, so Utah has begun raising teacher salaries to recruit top college graduates.

We recruit top college graduates and professionals to teach for at least two years in hard - to - staff, low - income schools and to go on to fight for educational equity wherever their lives take them.

Kopp said she aims to export the model she pioneered, of recruiting top college graduates to teach for a few years in low - income communities.

The Mind Trust will use $ 2 million from the Lilly grant to help fund Teach for America, which recruits top college graduates to teach in high - need public schools.