Youth national service and women's political ambition: the case of Teach For America

Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung; Conn, Katharine M.; Anderson-Nilsson, Georgia

doi:10.1080/21565503.2019.1630288

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“…Further, those who apply to national service programs differ from the general population in important ways. 44 For instance, if the general population is less eager to learn about others than the subset of the population that seriously considers national service and/or is eligible for these 43 McAdam and Brandt (2009) find that civic engagement does not increase after participating in TFA; however, Mo, Conn, and Anderson-Nilsson (2018) find that TFA participation sparks women's political ambition. 44 For example, consider religion, a correlate of political and social attitudes.…”

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When Do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service

Conn

2018

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Are there mechanisms by which the advantaged can see the perspectives of the disadvantaged? If advantaged individuals have prolonged engagement with disadvantaged populations and confront issues of inequality through national service, do they see the world more through the lens of the poor? We explore this question by examining Teach For America (TFA), as TFA is a prominent national service program that integrates top college graduates into low-income communities for two years and employs a selection model that allows for causal inference. A regression discontinuity approach, utilizing an original survey of over 32,000 TFA applicants and TFA’s selection data for the 2007–2015 application cycles, reveals that extended intergroup contact in a service context causes advantaged Americans to adopt beliefs that are closer to those of disadvantaged Americans. These findings have broad implications for our understanding of the impact of intergroup contact on perceptions of social justice and prejudice reduction.

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“… 43 McAdam and Brandt (2009) find that civic engagement does not increase after participating in TFA; however, Mo, Conn, and Anderson-Nilsson (2018) find that TFA participation sparks women’s political ambition.…”

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When Do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service

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2018

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“…Moreover, studies suggest recruitment and party networks are less accessible to Latinas and black women compared with white women (Brown and Dowe 2020; Ocampo and Ray 2019; Silva and Skulley 2018; but see also Fraga and Hassell 2020). Scholarship has also assessed whether candidate training or national service programs cultivate ambition, and whether these programs are more effective for some women than others (Mo, Conn, and Anderson-Nilsson 2019; Sanbonmatsu 2015; Schneider and Sweet-Cushman 2020; Sweet-Cushman 2019). Although these studies are useful for understanding differences in the possession of—or development of—nascent ambition between men and women, and among women of different races, more information is needed to understand differential rates of candidate emergence among the politically ambitious (Lawless and Fox 2010; Shah, Scott, and Juenke 2019).…”

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It Takes a Motive: Communal and Agentic Articulated Interest and Candidate Emergence

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Green

2020

Political Research Quarterly

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More women ran for office in 2018 than any previous election year. This represents progress toward parity, but it remains unclear whether this surge in women’s political ambition signals an easing of the candidate emergence path, which has typically favored men. We leverage over ten thousand intake forms of prospective candidates provided by Run for Something, a candidate recruitment nonprofit founded in 2017, to examine patterns in candidate emergence based on articulated interest through the lens of “communion” and “agency,” two basic behavioral orientations with gendered significance. We find that differences in articulated interest along the dimensions of communion and agency are greater between candidates and noncandidates than they are between men and women, supporting previous findings of similarities in men and women who emerge as candidates. Our results suggest the candidate emergence path is still easier for women (and men) whose motives are congruent with agency, and therefore the “masculine ethos” of politics.

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“…TFA describes its participants as leaders who are contributing to the broader field of educational improvement, and alumni of its program are encouraged to remain active in the education sector even if they do not remain in teaching (TFA, undated-a). There is evidence that the experience of participating in TFA influences individuals' future career trajectories, including effects on participants' likelihood to work in education, ambition to engage on policy issues, and mindsets and perceptions (Dobbie and Fryer, 2015;Mo, Conn, and Anderson-Nilsson, 2019). Although it is difficult to measure any causal effects of the diffuse contributions of alumni who have participated in TFA programs, prior research has used network analyses and other methodologies to make the case that the TFA alumni exert influence on schooling and educational policies in a variety of ways even if they do not continue to work in schools directly (Kretchmer, Sondel, and Ferrare, 2014;Trujillo, Scott, and Rivera, 2017).…”

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Teaching and Leading: An Evaluation of the Impacts and Professional Trajectories of Teach For America Participants in Indianapolis

2023

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This report focuses on the impacts of Teach For America Indianapolis on student and school outcomes in the Indianapolis area. The report also examines data regarding professional trajectories of Teach For America Indianapolis alumni, including those who have left K-12 schools and moved on to other types of work. The intended audiences for this report are educators, policymakers, academics, the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, and the Teach For America organization. RAND Education and LaborThis study was undertaken by RAND Education and Labor, a division of the RAND Corporation that conducts research on early childhood through postsecondary education programs, workforce development, and programs and policies affecting workers, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and decisionmaking. This study was sponsored by the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation.More information about RAND can be found at www.rand.org. Questions about this report should be directed to

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Youth national service and women's political ambition: the case of Teach For America

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

When Do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service

When Do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service

It Takes a Motive: Communal and Agentic Articulated Interest and Candidate Emergence

Teaching and Leading: An Evaluation of the Impacts and Professional Trajectories of Teach For America Participants in Indianapolis

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