Shannon Carroll of Flintstone has joined Teach For America, the national corps of top college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools in low-income communities.

Carroll is a 2006 graduate of Ridgeland High School, a 2010 graduate of University of Georgia, and will teach in Alabama beginning this fall.

Teach For America received a record-breaking 46,000 applications this year, and admission was more selective than ever with an acceptance rate of 12 percent.

Teach For America recruits on more than 350 college campuses, seeking top graduates from all academic majors and backgrounds who have demonstrated outstanding achievement, perseverance and leadership. At more than 120 colleges and universities, over five percent of the senior class applied, including 12 percent of all seniors at Ivy League schools, seven percent of the graduating class at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and six percent at the University of California-Berkeley.

This fall, more than 8,200 first- and second-year Teach For America corps members will be teaching in 39 urban and rural regions nationwide.

More than 450 Teach For America alumni serve as school principals or superintendents, more than 500 work in government or policy, and nearly 30 serve in elected office.

For more information, visit www.teachforamerica.org.