DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest
Pathways to Teaching 
Careers Program
At Armstrong Atlantic State University School of Education
coordinated through the Southern Education Foundation

Scholar Elijah West
October 3, 1997 Testimony of Elijah West, Pathways to Teaching
Program Scholar
A Hearing on Innovations in American Government
Government Reform and Oversight Committee

I, Elijah West, am a product of the local collaboration between Armstrong Atlantic State University, and Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools. For six-years I supported my family as a paraprofessional and a part-time mathematics instructor. I was stuck. I love kids, but was working three jobs and barely making ends meet. I loved what I was doing and was encouraged by administrators to become a certified teacher. But I didn't have money for tuition. I was going to do some good for children, but I was never going to be able to devote my full attention to changing lives. I hardly had enough time for my own family.

Then came the Pathways Program. I survived the Program's intense interviews and found myself in the midst of a like-minded group of Scholars.

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