New college grads flocking to national service programs

Cornell University senior Eric Shannon made it through four rounds of interviews last winter when a hiring freeze turned him into just another soon-to-be graduate facing a shrinking job market.

[gng]

Hooray for these kids!

[Kathy]

What a great story - lots of helpful information. Way to go!

[Project on Student Debt]

Another benefit of joining the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, or Teach for America is the time spent working for these groups counts toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a new program for people with federal student loans who work in a wide range of "public service" jobs, including jobs in government and nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations. Public Service Loan Forgiveness will forgive remaining debt after 10 years of eligible employment and qualifying loan payments. For more information about the program, as well as another program called Income-Based Repayment, see www.IBRinfo.org or join the Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php...

[Sgt 524]

Looks like everyone will be working for the government shortly as Obama destroys the capitalistic system.

[Just Saying]

"Flocking"? You mean like sheep? Now it all makes sense!

[Don Joe]

Sgt 524 wrote:

Looks like everyone will be working for the government shortly as Obama destroys the capitalistic system.

Where have you been? bush destroyed it long ago.

[Sgt 524]

Don Joe wrote:

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Where have you been? bush destroyed it long ago.

Looks like Obama has it in over drive now.

[Don Joe]

Sgt 524 wrote:

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Looks like Obama has it in over drive now.

bush drove it off a cliff. The brakes no longer work, just freefall. The only question is what happens when we hit bottom. Doesn't look to me like there will even be a country left. Doesn't matter what Obama does. Our money is already gone.

[JesseAlred]

The most successful charters--KIPP and YES--are application-based, and most application-based schools, whether charter or entirely public schools are relatively successful. The KIPP and YES people have oversold and misinterpreted their product, though it is a fine product, but the whole Teach for America crowd from Washington D.C. to Houston to New York are waging a corporate-financed class war against educators who work in the toughest neighborhood schools, seeking to emasculate our professional organizations and eliminating teacher tenure. If they win, the result will be teachers unwilling and afraid to speak about controversial education issues or problems in their workplace. To the extent job security is linked to student test scores, you will also see vast increases in the incidents of teaching, the same sort of scandals corporate America has given us.
Jesse Alred
Teacher
Houston, Texas