What Homeless Students Lose When Schools Go Digital
Educators, school leaders, and community leaders alike are deeply concern over COVID-19's long-term impacts on the education of over 100,000 homeless students in the New York City public school system.
Jessica Fregni
Writer-Editor, One Day
Undocumented in Color
Atlanta Artist Yehimi Cambrón (Metro Atlanta ’15) brings to life the complexities of the immigrant experience through murals that make this issue, and the people at the heart of this issue, unavoidable.
Paula Ann Solis
From Lacrosse to Tackling Food Insecurity in the Bronx
Teach For America alum Dan Leventhal talks about how he helps students in the United States poorest congressional district by starting Bronx Lacrosse and how the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the community.
Dan Leventhal
Rushing to Fill the Gaps Coronavirus Has Widened
As the pandemic intensifies inequities in education and across our already fragile safety nets, social entrepreneurs and nonprofits are feeling the urgency to find solutions.
Laura Zingg
Editorial Project Manager, One Day Studio
Advocating in Partnership With Alumni and Students
Recently, TFA staff and alumni—as well as some Seattle students—gathered in Olympia, Washington, to meet with state legislators and advocate for their education priorities.
The TFA Editorial Team
100 Years Later, Remembering and Rebuilding Black Wall Street
Ashley Philippsen is helping to lead Tulsa’s centennial effort to remember and rebuild where hundreds lost their lives.
Facing Oppression through Pain, with Resilience
Despite decades of disinvestment, the nonprofit For Oak Cliff sees promise in its namesake Dallas neighborhood. Activists are treating both the causes and symptoms of oppression.
Susan Brenna
From the Classroom to the Polls: Honoring the Legacy of African Americans and Voting Rights
In his African American Studies classes at KIPP Memphis Collegiate High School, Benjamin Smith (Memphis '15) strives to correct the misinformation and unrealistic exceptions placed on Black voters and to encourage his students to become civically engaged.
Benjamin Smith
Stories of Teach For America Alumni Dedicated to Social Justice
By coming face-to-face with systemic barriers, TFA has built a coalition of social justice warriors empowered and equipped to develop innovative, practical solutions aimed at ending educational injustice.
Alexzandria Cormier-Hill
How to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning in Your Classroom
Learn how corps member Alexis Achiah (Greater Chicago-Northwest Indiana, '18) wove social-emotional learning into her lesson plans and saw tremendous change in her students.