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Teach for America: Recent Activities

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Elisa-Villanueva-BeardTeach for America seeks to “close the educational gap in low-income communities” across America. Today, this is expanding to Latino teachers and corps members given that over 600 Latinos form the 6,000 incoming teacher corps. This renders it the largest Latino recruitment in TFA’s history.

According to co-CEO of TFA, Elisa Villanueva Beard, this group of Latinos is “dedicating their talents and energy to giving all kids an equal chance in life.” This translates into all sorts of issues for teachers, administrators and students.

Teach for America has a simple mission: to help those who are impoverished “achieve at the highest levels.” Today, there are approximately 16m children throughout the nation that are encountering poverty. But TFA is working to ensure that this does not have an impact on their education. This means it does what it can to ensure children get a good education, irrespective of where they live and that the schools are well equipped – from school desks to computer equipment, to playground supervision with extra staff.
In other words, money should not be a factor when it comes to the education of our children.

Charities that Do Good

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A Gift of School Lockers Can Enhance the Learning Experience
A Gift of School Lockers Can Enhance the Learning Experience

Whether you’re in the market to give money to a charity or you want to devote your time, there are many great educational charities out there today. Finding the right charity, and the one with which you will connect, is the tricky part. Here, we list some of the best educational charities today and the work that they do. While some help to increase test scores and others will offer new school desks or school lockers as needed, they are all aimed at doing good.

Teach for America – They recruit college graduates to teach in rural and urban public schools. (here is a link to them if you want it –

James Madison Education Fund – This fund gives graduate fellowships to qualifying students and works to inspire people to be outstanding teachers.

Math Counts Foundation – They offer fun and challenging math programs for middle schoolers to achieve academically.

Adopt a Classroom – This organization connects donors with teachers so that the donors can learn what supplies the teachers need. They can donate school furniture, school supplies and more.

Black Student Fund – They provide financial assistance and support to African American Students from k-12. It helps to make sure that students stay in school and help kids to graduate.