Description: Teach For America's mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by building a highly selective service corps of our nation's most promising future leaders -- outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors -- who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in pursuit of educational excellence and equity.

Mission: Teach For America's mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by building a highly selective service corps of our nation's most promising future leaders -- outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors -- who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in pursuit of educational excellence and equity.Educational disparities are greater in our country than in almost any other industrialized nation. In America today, nine-year-olds in low-income urban and rural areas already are three grade levels behind nine-year-olds in wealthier suburbs; fewer than half of high school students in urban areas graduate, and those who do graduate often read below basic levels. A child who happens to be born in the Bronx or in Compton is seven times less likely to graduate from college than a child born in Manhattan or Beverly Hills. If an excellent education is fundamental to opportunity in life, then our nation is far from living up to its ideals.We believe these disparities persist becau