2008 Corps Profile
In 2008, 25,000 individuals applied to Teach For America, resulting in an incoming corps of 3,700.
Placement Regions
We place corps members in 29 urban and rural regions across the nation.
Alumni Impact
Our alumni remain committed to our mission far beyond their two-year commitments, and are leading critical efforts to expand opportunity
Equity Within Reach
In this report, Teach For America corps members cite teachers, school leadership, and expectations of students as key causes of—and solutions to—the academic achievement gap that exists along socioeconomic and racial lines.
Teach For America is deeply engaged in a process of continuous improvement—measuring our progress against our goals, analyzing our program approach, and adapting that approach accordingly to increase our impact. We also believe strongly in the need for accountability to our goals. Toward both of these ends, Teach For America welcomes and seeks out rigorous independent evaluations as a means of measuring our impact and continuously improving our program.
If you are a researcher who is interested in conducting a study involving Teach For America, please contact our managing director, research. We request that all interested researchers, from doctoral students working on dissertations to large research organizations, submit a brief proposal outlining your project. All applications will be reviewed by our Research and Public Policy Team.
Teach For America has participated in a number of independent studies of our impact on students and schools. A growing body of rigorous studies demonstrate that our corps members are as effective as, and in some cases more effective than, other teachers, including certified and veteran teachers.
The studies highlight the impact that Teach For America corps members are having in classrooms across the nation:
A group of highly respected external researchers help us develop and implement our research and evaluation agenda. Members of the Advisory Board are:
• Ron Ferguson, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• Susan Fuhrman, Columbia Teachers College
• Dan Goldhaber, University of Washington
• Susan Moore Johnson, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Ken Zeichner, University of Wisconsin
Report on corps member views
Corps and Alumni