In America today, educational inequity persists along socioeconomic and racial lines. Fourth graders growing up in low-income communities are already three grade levels behind their peers in high-income communities.

Half of them won't graduate from high school.

Those who do graduate will, on average, read and do math at the level of eighth graders in high-income communities¹.

Each day, in communities across the country, Teach For America sees that when children facing the challenges of poverty are given the educational opportunities they deserve, they excel.

Visit the links below to learn more about Teach For America:

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Teach For America has a network of more than 20,000 members. Today over 7,300 corps members are teaching in classrooms across the country while more than 17,000 alumni are effecting broader changes to help close the achievement gap.  Join the more than 500 Golden Key alumni currently in the corps in the fight to end educational inequity.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 18, 2009
Full salary and benefits. All academic majors and career backgrounds accepted.

Contact us at admissions@teachforamerica.org.

¹ National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2005