The non-profit organization that sends freshly minted college grads with just five weeks of training into low-income schools where they are expected to teach for a minimum of two years is undergoing a recruitment crisis. After a 15 year run in recruitment growth, Teach for America application numbers are down 10% nationally; in some regions, applications have dipped by more than 50%, data to which I have been privy as a campus recruiter. While the organization attributes an improved economy to the decline in application numbers, Teach for America’s recruitment failures have less to do with a rebounding job market and more to do with deeply-rooted organizational infirmities.
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