Month: March 2015

• Do you have five minutes to understand whether @TeachForAmerica is effective?

  9–13 minutes

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  March 10, 2015

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  Accountability, Teach For America

  Do you have five minutes to understand whether Teach For America (TFA) is effective? Mathematica does and they did in their latest study of TFA. More on this lead later in the review. The taxpayers of the USA paid Mathematica about $12 million for a couple of studies of TFA. We reviewed the prior 2013…

  

• What would you say to @TeachForAmerica recruiting letter?

  5–8 minutes

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  March 3, 2015

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  Teach For America, Teacher Quality

  Even when Teach For America recruiters are banned from using faculty class time to recruit students— they still try to. This form letter was forwarded to me by a Professor. Hi Professor, I am currently a Senior Marketing Student here at the ________ and a Campus Campaign Coordinator for Teach For America. I’m contacting you because…