Teach For America is building the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort. Teach For America provides well-trained teachers, called corps members, who commit to teach for two years in communities like Baton Rouge in South Louisiana, one of 39 urban and rural regions across the country. Corps members go above and beyond traditional expectations to help their students to achieve at high levels. With your help, we can provide critical talent and energy to help fuel this effort and give all children in this nation the opportunity to attain an excellent education.

Visit www.teachforamerica.org to learn how you can get involved.

"TakePart" If You Believe In Education Reform

Now's your chance to take part in opportunities to donate, volunteer, and mentor at a high school near you!

TakePart is an independent online community that connects its members directly to the issues that inspire them to engage, contribute and take action. Our team of editors, writers, and researchers curate and deliver actions in context with in-depth primers to the social, environmental, political and cultural issues of our day. Taking action and making change are just a click away. By joining TakePart, individuals and organizations become part of a networked media hub. We're all here to facilitate collaboration, promote causes and pool resources to create real change in real communities. We are about action. We are about motivation. And we are about to help a lot of people do a lot of good things.

http://www.takepart.com/categories/education

"Adopt-A-Classroom" of Deserving Kids

Adopt-A-Classroom lets you choose which class to support, transform, and inspire!

Adopt-A-Classroom invites the community into the classroom in support of teachers and their students. By adopting a classroom, donors form partnerships with specific classrooms providing financial and moral support. The result is a meaningful contribution to education in which donors experience the impact of their efforts and celebrate in a classroom's success.

http://www.adoptaclassroom.org

U.S. Department of Education

Make sure our elected officials are keeping their campaign promises and improving education.

The mission of the Department of Education is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. It engages in four major types of activities: 1) Establishes policies related to federal education funding, administers distribution of funds and monitors their use. 2) Collects data and oversees research on America's schools. 3) Identifies major issues in education and focuses national attention on them. 4) Enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination in programs that receive federal funds.

http://www.ed.gov

Meet a Deadline with Project Appleseed

Find out how you can help Project Appleseed, a place where they understand that it takes a village to help our schools excel.

When parents are involved in children's learning, at school and at home, schools work better and students learn more. Project Appleseed is working with schools, families, employers and community organizations to develop local partnerships that support a safe school environment where students learn to challenging standards. To get the best results from your parental involvement efforts, we want you and your schools to join our movement to plant the seeds of school improvement in your local schools with National Parental Involvement Day and Public School Volunteer Week!

http://www.projectappleseed.org/abc.html