The Peru Gazette

LOUDENVILLE, NY, March 10, 2014 —Teach For America announced today that Morgan Flynn, a senior at Siena College, has been accepted to the organization’s 2014 teaching corps. A native of Peru, New York, Flynn studies English and Education at Siena College. She was selected from an applicant pool of over 50,000, one of the largest and most diverse in the organization’s history. She is the fourth Siena graduate to join the teaching corps and will teach in Mississippi next year. Teach For America is the national corps of top recent college graduates and professionals who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in the pursuit of educational opportunity for all students.

Teach For America trains more teachers to teach in low-income communities than any other organization or institution in the country. It is also among the nation’s most-studied teacher-preparation programs. The most recent study, conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences, found that Teach For America teachers have a positive impact on student achievement in math. Additionally, earlier this year the Tennessee Higher Education Commission report cardidentified Teach For America as one of the state’s most effective sources of teachers for the fourth consecutive year. These findings are consistent with similar statewide studies in North Carolina and Louisiana.

The 2014 teacher corps will join Teach For America’s 32,000 alumni who work across all sectors to effect change. Two-thirds are working full-time in education, with one-third as classroom teachers and one-third in other roles including principals and superintendents. A 2011 study by Harvard professor Monica Higgins and the American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess found that Teach For America is creating more founders and leaders of education organizations than any other organization or program.

About Teach For America

Teach For America works in partnership with communities to expand educational opportunity for children facing the challenges of poverty. Founded in 1990, Teach For America recruits and develops a diverse corps of outstanding individuals of all academic disciplines to commit two years to teach in high-need schools and become lifelong leaders in the movement to end educational inequity. Today, 11,000 corps members are teaching in 48 urban and rural regions across the country while 32,000 alumni work across sectors to ensure that all children have access to an excellent education. For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.