Why Teach for America?
- added October 2, 2007
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- dbeckmann
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The NYT Magazine uses Houston's inner city and a promising TFA student as an example of what works about TFA... and the goes into the controversey about what makes a good teacher? I dont think it goes deep enough into whether or not the short training programme and the highly selective nature of its acceptance process actually produces a good situation. Further--I would like to have heard from some of the many situations I hear about in which the teachers are not the perfect models for this situation. Unscientifically of course, most of my friends who did TFA did not work out all that well and are no longer teaching. Its more complicated than that people--becuase the ones that DID work out are some of the most sucessful early teachers I know. That's how complicated this project is--there's no answer at the end of this CRITICAL mass--only the journalism and work from all to have an rich understanding from which to make their own judgements.
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