Bad economy? President Obama’s call to national service? The disappearance of the investment banking industry? Whatever the reason, applications to Teach for America have hit 35,000 this year–up 42%. That includes 6 percent of the graduating classes of Stanford University and UC-Berkeley, and 11 percent of Ivy League school seniors, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
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Ending educational inequality is THE social justice issue of this generation and I am so excited not to mention inspired to see TFA leading the way – once again. I think Wendy Kopp should be given a Nobel Prize in Economics for the impact she is having on the economic lives of the students her recruits have touched. I volunteer at a KIPP school as a tutor and my student told me he was two years behind when he started and made that up his first year. This young man is going to college on his own merits and there was no way, except through some affirmative action slight of hand, that he was going to do that before. He is so proud of his achievement as he has every right to be. He has changed his whole life through his own efforts. Yes, he did. “Yes we can.” Take note.