Teach for America's
applications are up, way up. The number of applications was up 10% over
last year to around 19,000 recent grads according to an Inside Higher
Education story.



Whether this is good or bad for education can be debated elsewhere, but
you cannot deny the rise in the interest level of recent college
graduates wanting to participate in the education system. More people,
especially academically proficient young people, taking an interest in
serving the next generation of students can only be good.