2 responses to “New Truth For America podcast episode: Should TFA be banned in Low-Income schools?”

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   Patrick Crabtree

   March 19, 2019 at 9:46 am

   I was President of the local in Atla ta when Beverly Hall brought in all the TFA and cheating. They never added anything to the education of APS students. TFA thought they were so much better than our veteran educators. They could only follow scripts, not teach.

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   altedmonty

   March 18, 2019 at 3:55 am

   Teach for America has been on my mind after reading “None of the Above: The untold story of the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, corporate greed, and the criminalization of Educators” by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton (2019). Ms. Robinson was a 1st grade TFA teacher caught up in and convicted (shamelessly) by the “powerful” starting with the Governor of GA who is now the President’s Sec. of Agriculture. This Bill in CA has powerful interests against it, as you’ll hear, – the same interests as in Atlanta. Soon to come: http://www.onechildleftbehindmovie.com also tells this story -watch. We just need to “Carry It On” and I thank Dr. Vasquez-Heilig for doing so. Both he and Dr.Joyce E. King also a PhD graduate from Stanford University. She is an esteemed professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, formerly my professor at UNO, and, past president of AERA. I thank you both. Finally, let me recommend the book: “Carry it On” .. it tells the real political story about the region of Alabama where my Teacher Corps experiences in 1968 occurred. I attended UWA under Dr. Brown of Greene County. He was the first: -post- Jim Crow African American Superintendent in the South. I worked under him and with “Mr. Bill” Abernathy in Linden, Alabama near Selma, Alabama. Dr. Joyce E. King arranged for Dr. Robert Brown’s story and accomplishments to be presented at AERA, Chicago, 2014 which led to a publication: “More than Race: The “Full Employment” Civil Rights Work of Robert Brown, Alabama’s first Black public school superintendent” In: Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, Spring/Summer 2018, 25(1) : 1-47.

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