Studies show that poor education in the preschool and elementary years lead to lifelong disadvantages.
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February 7, 2011
When Teach for America began in 1990, it sent 500 men and women to six impoverished areas across the country. Twenty years later, the corps is 8,200 strong.
More than 20,000 college graduates and professionals have given two years of their lives to combating the inequalities that exist in the American education system.
The program has touched the lives of three million thus far, but low-income students are still significantly disadvantaged in comparison to their high-income peers. Senior Sarah Catherine Welch is one of many Washington and Lee students looking to change that.
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