Isn't that the story that's been pitched the last few years? You know, the story from aging boomers that says all of the kids today are narcissistic and obsessed with material goods or the complaint that was made about boomers by previous generations. Maybe, just maybe that story was false from the beginning.
When school starts next fall, Teach for America will send an unprecedented number of college graduates to teach in poor communities across the country — but not as many as the group would like.Regardless of why they are there - and sure, the economy is probably a contributing factor - they are there in big numbers. Good for them.
Teach for America this year chose 4,100 recruits from more than 35,000 applications. While the group has never accepted every applicant, this was the first time it had to turn down people who met all its rigorous criteria.
"For the last nine years, really the only constraint on our growth has been recruits, just finding enough people who we really believe are ready for this," said Wendy Kopp, the group's founder and chief executive.
"This is the first year when we've had to turn away people who would have met our admission bar in any previous year," Kopp said.
