Submitted: September 21, 2011 - 8:45am
Last updated: September 21, 2011 - 8:49am
Last updated: September 21, 2011 - 8:49am
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Fortune
Author:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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Teach for America, 315 West 36th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Teach for America might sound like a fun way to spend a couple years after college, but it's a pretty tough gig. With just five-weeks training, recent graduates -- many from America's most elite colleges and universities -- are thrown into classrooms in some of the country's meanest, most-impoverished public schools. Into this improbable mix Apple has just added a few thousand iPads. It's part of a public service program Apple initiated last spring with the launch of the iPad 2. Owners of first-generation iPads who had no use for them were invited to donate the devices to teachers in low-income communities.
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