“I think that many of us who wrote this statement think that people who teach in schools should be rooted and have long-term stakes in those communities,” ... “however well-meaning” (Teach For America) corps members may be, the majority of them do not tend to stick around in their schools for more than two years said Erin Dyke,...The TFA program also contributes to a “myth of meritocracy,”...TFA assumes that all low-income students need to succeed is “a good role model from an elite school,” while “gliding over the complexities” of the structural problems in American education, she said...Teach for America places recent college graduates (the majority of whom do not have an education degree) in low-income schools throughout the country, where they commit to teach for two years. TFA corps members attend a five-week training program before they begin teaching.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:30:21 +0000
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