Education series guest Phyllis Williams of Teach for America discusses education issues

Education series guest Phyllis Williams, Director of Education Partnerships, Teach for America Kansas City, discusses education, student achievement and education options as a part of Urban Connections series of programming on education.

Host and producer Donna Morrow Wolfe, Co-host and co-producer, Joseph Jackson

Teach for America

THERE ARE MORE THAN 16 MILLION CHILDREN GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES.

These statistics are not a reflection of our children’s potential. Kids growing up in poverty can and do achieve at the highest levels. Instead, these statistics reflect the systemic lack of equity for kids in low-income communities.

There are numerous forces behind this injustice—racism, outdated policies, lack of resources, and much more—so there isn’t just one simple fix. To make things right we must come together as students, teachers, principals, activists, social entrepreneurs, politicians, and all others to disrupt the causes of injustice and create solutions.

It’s not just the lives of individual children at stake—this affects all of us. And it’s the responsibility of all of us to change things.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many as possible of our nation’s most promising future leaders to grow and strengthen the movement for educational equity and excellence.

OUR APPROACH
So we’re strengthening the movement of educational equity, but how? There are three parts to our approach:
Enlist
Develop
Mobilize
We recruit remarkable and diverse individuals to become teachers in low-income communities. They commit to teach for two years and are hired by our partner public schools across the country. During these two years they are called corps members.

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