The Rice Education & Teach For America Partnership Program offers teacher and leadership preparation programs that integrate work in courses with field-work experience. Additionally, the program facilitates a network of support for students and alumni to empower teacher leaders to continue to grow and evolve as professionals.
The programs provide strategic, continual practice to engage, prepare and support students in the exploration of critical issues in education. We are committed to fostering reflective teacher leaders and administrators in a changing global society.
- Rice is offering the following benefits for TFA alumni:
- For their principal certification only program tuition:
- TFA Rate is $3,575 (three installments payment is available) Regular Rate is $5,396
- $85 application fee waived
- For their Master of Arts in Teaching with a principal certification:
- Rice will cover the cost of one of the 10 courses required for the degree, specifically for the Race, Class, Gender in Education Course. Each course costs $1,900.
- $85 application fee waived
- For their principal certification only program tuition:
- Remember than you can use your AmeriCorps award to pay for this degree and/or certification.
If you are planning on applying to either of these programs please contact: Managing Director, Alumni Leadership Alejandra Ortega, Alejandra.Ortega@teachforamerica.org
For questions about the program, contact Brenda Rangel, EdD, Assistant Dean Rice Center for Education: Brenda.Rangel@rice.edu
Website: https://glasscock.rice.edu/departments/education-programs and https://centerforeducation.rice.edu/