Equity Within Reach
In this report, Teach For America corps members cite teachers, school leadership, and expectations of students as key
causes of—and solutions to—the academic achievement gap that exists along socioeconomic and racial lines.
Teach For America is deeply engaged in a process of continuous improvement—measuring our progress against our goals, analyzing our program approach, and adapting that approach accordingly to increase our impact. We also believe strongly in the need for accountability to our goals. Toward both of these ends, Teach For America welcomes and seeks out rigorous independent evaluations as a means of measuring our impact and continuously improving our program.
If you are a researcher who is interested in conducting a study involving Teach For America, please contact our director of research and public policy. We request that all interested researchers, from doctoral students working on dissertations to large research organizations, submit a brief proposal outlining your project. All applications will be reviewed by our Research and Public Policy Team.
We also suggest browsing this website to find details about our selection process and approach to training and ongoing support, as well as information on the impact our corps members and alumni are having.
Teach For America has participated in a number of independent studies of our impact on students and schools. We are also currently working with researchers to explore additional studies of corps member impact, including the impact of our corps members teaching at the secondary level, and whether changes in our program model since 2004 have led to changes in student impact.
Study on student outcomes
Survey of school principals
In addition, Teach For America was one of several pathways to teaching included in two recent studies on teacher effectiveness in NYC. Read more on these studies:
A group of highly respected external researchers help us develop and implement our research and evaluation agenda. Members of the Advisory Board are:
Report on corps member views
Corps and Alumni