Premature apprehension?
I have to say, reading some of these blog posts has made me somewhat more apprehensive about my decision to commit to TFA. I definitely don’t regret it, and am still very much looking forward to it,...
View ArticleA brief excerpt from my thesis
I just wrote this yesterday, so it is very rough, but also very applicable to what we’re attempting to work against at Teach For America. Although the thesis is not specifically about education, it...
View ArticleHard Times at Douglass High
I just finished rewatching the movie that I first found out about TFA through. It’s an HBO documentary called Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card. I think I watched it when...
View ArticleAn Education
At last weekend’s Professional Development Saturday, the CEO and Superintendent of Baltimore City Public Schools came in to give a whole group address to the TFA Baltimore Cohort of 2010-2011. I have...
View ArticleOn the Strike
It’s bad enough how much trouble the general public seems to have in grasping all the things that can be functioning poorly in a school district. The anti-union–actually, anti-teacher–rhetoric that...
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