Tag: TFA research

• 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…

  

• Fold or Rethink: A Teach For America Civil War?

  7–10 minutes

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  March 4, 2013

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  Teach For America, Teacher Quality

  Is a Civil War brewing amongst the legion of highly-educated (mostly temporary) corps alumni? I have been surprised by the recent articles from former Teach For America teachers discussing a variety of critiques. Emma Lind, a Harvard grad and a former corp member, called for a “rethink” of TFA in the Harvard Crimson. Matt Barnum, the…