‘The reality of marginalised students in India is similar to those in the U.S.’ Premium

There is a really big open question about whether Gen-Z is signing up to teach. What I hear from people all over the world is that this is one of our most central challenges. We are working across the Teach For All (TFA) network to recruit people aggressively to commit two years to teach in the communities where they are needed because we have seen that those two years of commitment is transformational for students who are in classrooms and for the teachers themselves because what you do shapes who you are.  

Wendy Kopp, the co-founder and CEO of Teach For All (TFA), a network of independent organisations working to expand educational opportunities in more than 60 countries, was recently in India. In a conversation with The Hindu, she spoke about Teach For India, a part of TFA, which received 20,000 applications for its 2024 cohort, the highest volume within one recruitment cycle, Gen-Z’s interest in teaching, and the challenges facing the education sector globally.