COMBATTING EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY WITH TECHNOLOGY SKILLS Pluralsight ONE | Teach for America 1 158414-19 THE PROBLEM Fueling a mission with limited resources At Teach For America, the goal is to close the educational opportunity gap that disproportionately affects low income communities. “When you look at the education landscape in our country and even around the world, opportunity is not equally distributed, whereas talent is,” says Sandeep Chellani, Teach For America CIO. To level the educational playing field, Teach For America recruits high-performing college students and develops them into teachers. They spend a minimum of 2 years with the program and often go on to a lifelong career in education or service. “We’re really thinking about how to leverage technology to deve

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