Category: Teach For America
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The debate about the efficacy of Teach For America continued in the Washington Post this past weekend. Yes, it goes on and on. This time we are discussing a recently released study (apparently not peer-reviewed at this point) that says TFA teachers’ student performed better in math but not ELA. There are many non-peer reviewed…
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A Cloaking Inequity reader made me aware of this sincere tell-all from a former TFA teacher that was recently posted on Carla Ranger’s blog, a Dallas ISD School Board member (we have lots and lots and lots of TFA in Texas— Dallas, Houston, Rio Grande Valley etc.). John Bilby’s thoughts reblogged from Ranger’s blog: I left…
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Here I thought I couldn’t be surprised by anything that Teach For America does. Then comes along this investigative piece in Edweek’s Living In Dialogue written by Anthony Cody. It is a (not so) surprising narrative about Native students, mutton, $, and TFA from Four Corners. TFA never ceases to disamaze me (Is that a…
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Originally posted on Louisiana Voice: Remember when teaching was about answering to a calling—before the Jindal administration came charging onto the scene with its half-baked ideas of education reform through sweeping legislation that promoted something called Teach for America? As noble and magnanimous as Teach for America (TFA) would have you believe its motives to…
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Teach for America released a new study this week about their Texas operation. It is nearly 100 pages long, but when I reviewed the study I noted a fatal flaw. See my discussion of the fatal flaw in The Monitor: Study finds Teach for America corps members, alumni had outsized impact on middle schools in several…
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