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Teach for America: The 2009 class
A record number of college graduates this year joined Teach for America, the program that trains top students to teach in poor communities. A look at where the 4,100 new teachers come from:
A record number of college graduates this year joined Teach for America, the program that trains top students to teach in poor communities. A look at where the 4,100 new teachers come from:
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Colleges most attended:
University of Michigan
University of Texas, Austin
University of California, Berkeley
Cornell University
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Harvard University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Yale University
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Schools where Teach for America is the No. 1 employer of graduating seniors:
Albion College
Barnard College
Brown University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Loyola of New Orleans
Marquette University
Mount Holyoke College
Spelman College
Trinity College, Connecticut
Tulane University
University of Chicago
University of Connecticut
University of San Diego
Vanderbilt University
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Schools with more than 5 percent of the senior class applying:
Spelman, 25 percent
Yale, 16 percent
Princeton University and Wellesley College, 15 percent
Brown, University of Chicago, Haverford College, 14 percent
Harvard, Bowdoin College, 13 percent
Columbia University, Cornell, Georgetown, Swarthmore College, Duke University, 11 percent
University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Amherst College, William & Mary, Tulane, 10 percent
University of Michigan, 8 percent
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