Category: Teach For America
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“How can you be mean to a nice Teach For America corps member?” This and more in episode 11 of the Truth For America. The podcast was recorded LIVE at the 2016 Save our Schools March and Conference held at the Lincoln Memorial and Howard University. Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For…
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In the post BREAKING: TFA out in San Francisco I first discussed the decision by the School Board of the San Francisco Unified School District decision to break their relationship with Teach For America. Episode 10 of the Truth For America podcast features an EXCLUSIVE conversation with Lita Blanc, President of United Educators of San Francisco, about the demise…
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Someone put this in CA BATs from United Educators of SF: SFUSD Suspends Teach For America for the 16/17 School Year This week we learned that the SFUSD Board of Education has pulled support for the Teach for America (TFA) program for the 16/17 school year. While we celebrate and respect TFA teachers who commit…
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It’s National Charter School Week. Have you heard about the 2015-16 Teach For America first-year teacher who was asked by a charter school to literally construct the building too? I did ask her in a podcast if she had also been trained as a general construction contractor by TFA during her 5-weeks of training in the…
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Diane Ravitch, a parent, and Teach For Alums discuss LIVE on Truth For America whether a cyber war is being waged against TFA critiques, how communities can influence conversations about TFA, the role of TFA in the privatization of education movement, and the (in)adequacy of TFA’s summer training and pedagogical approaches. Truth For America is a…
Cloaking Inequity 