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EDUCATION REPORT
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May 23, 2002: Teach for America
By Jerilyn Watson
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Teach for America is one of the nation’s most successful educational programs. This year, a record fourteen-
thousand recent college graduates have asked to join the program. More than one-thousand-seven-hundred young
men and women will be chosen for their intelligence1 and strong personal skills. They will receive special
training. Then they will teach children from poor families in schools in seventeen areas of the country. They will
teach for two years.
A student at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey2, had the idea for Teach
for America in nineteen-eighty-nine. Wendy Kopp recognized that children from
poor families have more problems learning3 than other children do. She wrote a
paper proposing4 a national teaching5 organization.
People soon supported her idea. Money from major companies helped launch6 the
program. About five-hundred young people began teaching in the program in
nineteen-ninety.Today, Mizz Kopp still leads the organization. Over the years,
eight -thousand teachers in the program have taught more than one -million children.
Teach for America has received money from individuals, organizations, companies and the federal7
government.Money also comes from individuals and businesses in communities where the teachers work.
Sometimes the Teach for America teachers organize events to help provide money for supplies for their
classrooms. Many of their schools do not have enough money for supplies.
School officials praise the Teach for America teachers. Sixty percent of the teachers continue in educational work
after finishing their two years. Most express satisfaction at having made a difference in children’s lives.
For example, Nicole Sherrin taught mathematics8 to teenage9 students in Phoenix10, Arizona. When she began, her
one-hundred-twenty students were the least successful students in the area. Mizz Sherrin developed ways to get
her students to do well in math. She organized them into groups and gave them special things when all the
members succeeded. She got to know her students and their families outside of school as a way of gaining their
trust.
By the end of the year, two-thirds of her students performed at the highest level on a special math test.
This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Jerilyn Watson.
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