NEW YORK -- Talking excitedly and pacing the front of her classroom, Molly Greer engages her students. "What are different paces you can go when you're reading aloud? Christina?" Molly Greer, in her New York classroom, says she now wants to make teaching her career. "Low." "Okay, low or soft, yes." On the first day of school, most of the kids in Greer's eighth-grade class could not read at a sixth-grade level. With summer almost here, it's a totally different story for these kids, who according to their school are expected to read at or near grade level. "It is an incredible thing for these students."
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Teach For America places college grads as teachers in low-income schools
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Some question whether graduates are qualified to teach in tough classrooms
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Group will place more than 4,000 teachers across United States this year
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