Teach For America (TFA)

Tanya Bryant, CEO of ReNEW Schools for Education Week.
Tanya Bryant, the CEO of ReNEW Schools, visits the ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Academy in New Orleans' 9th Ward on July 31, 2025. The school serves students in pre-K through 8th grade and is part of the ReNEW charter school network that Bryant leads.
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School & District Management The Storm, Aftermath, and Recovery: How Katrina Shaped This Educator's Career
An educator's pre- and post-Katrina work shows how a generation of teachers had a front-row seat to dramatic changes in New Orleans schools.
Evie Blad, August 19, 2025
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Jayla Anderson, a first-time teacher with the Teach for America program, plays a game of Simon Says while instructing a class of rising second graders during summer school at the RCMA Wimauma Academy on June 28, 2024 in Wimauma, Fla.
Jayla Anderson, a first-time teacher with Teach For America, plays a game of Simon Says while instructing a class of rising second graders during summer school at the RCMA Wimauma Academy on June 28, 2024, in Wimauma, Fla. The organization has seen a recent increase in applicants to its program.
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Recruitment & Retention Can Gen Z Be Enticed to Teach? Teach for America Thinks So
A poor labor market doesn't explain the growing interest in TFA, say its staff.
Elizabeth Heubeck, July 22, 2025
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The United States Capitol building as a bookcase filled with red, white, and blue policy books in a Washington DC landscape.
Luca D'Urbino for Education Week
Teaching Profession Opinion Teach For America's Outgoing CEO Reflects on Her Tenure
How changes to the education and political landscape have affected the organization since its founding 35 years ago.
Rick Hess, April 8, 2025
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Jennifer Mojica works with students in her math class at Holmes Elementary School in Miami on Sept. 1, 2011. In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.
Teach For America participant Jennifer Mojica works with students in her math class at Holmes Elementary School in Miami on Sept. 1, 2011. Incoming Teach For America CEO Aneesh Sohoni plans to help the group expand its pipeline of new teachers and education advocates.
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Teaching Profession Q&A Teach For America's New Head Hopes to Inspire Young People to Take Up Teaching
One Million Degrees CEO Aneesh Sohoni will take over the 35-year-old teacher-preparation group in April.
Sarah D. Sparks, January 13, 2025
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Conceptual image of drawing new graduates to the teaching workforce.
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Teacher Preparation Then & Now Why We Still Haven't Solved Teacher Shortages (Despite Decades of Trying)
The teacher-shortage discourse has a long history—and no perfect solutions.
Evie Blad, October 31, 2024
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Image of looking to future path options.
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Teacher Preparation Q&A Teach For America's CEO Is Stepping Down. What's Next for the Organization?
Elisa Villanueva Beard reflects on her journey leading the organization through several periods of change.
Madeline Will, January 29, 2024
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Jennifer Mojica works with students in her math class at Holmes Elementary School in Miami on Sept. 1, 2011. In a distressed neighborhood north of Miami's gleaming downtown, a group of enthusiastic but inexperienced instructors from Teach for America is trying to make progress where more veteran teachers have had difficulty: raising students' reading and math scores.
Jennifer Mojica, a Teach For America instructor, works with students in her math class at Holmes Elementary School in Miami on Sept. 1, 2011. The program helps staff low-income schools with young teachers, but it has shrunk along with the general teacher pipeline.
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Teacher Preparation Once a Big Player, Teach For America Tries to Regain Its Footing
A slimmed-down TFA is investing in tutoring programs and supports to keep members in the classroom.
Madeline Will, August 3, 2023
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Teaching Profession Here's What Teach For America Alumni Believe About Charters, Vouchers, and Societal Inequities
Teach For America participants are more likely to attribute differences in student outcomes to societal inequities and less likely to support vouchers and charter schools than applicants to the program who didn't make the final cut, a new study finds.
Madeline Will, October 8, 2019
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Teaching Profession Are Teach For America Members Allowed to Go on Strike?
Teach For America has said corps members who go on strike would lose thousands of dollars in award money.
Madeline Will, February 22, 2019
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Teaching Profession TFA Alumni Principals Are the Harshest Critics of TFA Teachers
TFA alumni principals are less satisfied than other principals with corps members'job performance, according to a new survey.
Brenda Iasevoli, January 19, 2018
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School & District Management TFA, Alternative Programs Marginally Better Than Traditional Teacher Prep, Study Finds
Students whose teachers were trained in alternative teacher preparation programs such as Teach For America perform slightly better academically than students whose teachers had traditional teacher training, according to a recent meta-analysis.
Liana Loewus, November 28, 2017
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School & District Management Thousands of Teachers at Risk of Deportation Under DACA Repeal
Among the many undocumented immigrants awaiting the fate of DACA, which President Trump has said he plans to cancel, are thousands of K-12 and postsecondary teachers.
Liana Loewus, September 7, 2017
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Teaching Profession Opinion Who Is the Ideal Teaching Candidate?
Where do good teachers come from? How do we pick promising candidates out of the crowd? What is the secret to putting the right people in the classroom?
Nancy Flanagan, August 21, 2017
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Teaching Profession Opinion The War on Teachers and the End of Public Education
We have genuinely reached a tipping point, one where we're struggling to get young people to go into teaching as professional career (as opposed to two-year adventure before law school). Our state legislators are openly declaring that teaching is now a short-term technical job, not a career, and thus public school educators don't really need a stable state pension. That's not only a war on individual teachers, but a war on teaching itself.
Nancy Flanagan, June 16, 2017
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