Yale blows Harvard and Princeton away in the % of students who apply for TFA

Colleges & Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/opinion/nyregionopinions/25CImoore.html?_r=1&oref=slogin%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/opinion/nyregionopinions/25CImoore.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>AS the city's public school students walk out the door this week to begin their summer recess, teachers will be doing the same — and a good many of them won't be coming back. </p>

<p>Each year the city finds itself short of teachers. It's not because there's a shortage of people interested in teaching, or a lack of recruitment programs. Last year, 12 percent of Yale's graduating class, and 8 percent of Harvard and Princeton's, applied for 3,500 Teach for America jobs.</p>

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<p>So...what?</p>

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<p>Of course, it wasn't a Yale grad who made TFA, it was a Princeton grad. ;)</p>