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What Parents Choose When They Pay: A Quick Reflection
For the past several years, two of the more common claims from the ed reform community are that class size is unimportant to student achievement and that test scores provide an effective way of...
View ArticleStay More Than Two Years
For my last couple of posts, I’ve been posting about my recent hiring at a private school. I found it instructive to look at some of the ways it sold itself to parents, namely by the fact that it kept...
View ArticleWhere TFA Succeeds and Where it Fails
Recently, on Twitter, TFA’s new co-CEO Matt Kramer posted an article called “Why Are We Burning Teach For America at the Stake?” written by alum Lauren Boyle. Lauren is rare among TFA alums for having...
View ArticleInexperienced in New Orleans: Thoughts on Owen Davis’s Critique
Blogger Owen Davis recently wrote a piece on Teach for America alumni resistance, and in his piece included the voice of a New Orleans public school student reacting to the influx of Teach for America...
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Helping students to love a subject is more important than test scores
With the early end of the 2012-2013 school year at my old school, I’ve had an extra long period this summer without work. I decided to use my time (and savings) to pay a visit to my old schools in...
View ArticleNot Going to College Should Not and Does Not Equal Failure
Diane Ravitch is one of my favorite authors and thinkers on education. In “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” she weaves rock-solid case against No Child Left Behind and the...
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Old Interview Prep Packet from TFA Los Angeles ’07
This past weekend I was going through all of my old teaching documents, looking for anything that could help me as I get ready to start the new school year. During my organization effort, I came across...
View ArticleOn Charter Churn, Stable School Communities, and Resume Boosts
I’ve never put too much stock in the idea that TFA recruits and young charter school teachers enter education for the resume padding; I think the job simply requires too much commitment and passion for...
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The Rubinstein System: A Review of “Beyond Survival” and “Reluctant...
To most readers of the blogs on the Teach for Us website, Gary Rubinstein is best known for his critiques of Teach for America’s training model and ed reformers’ miracle school claims. It was his...
View ArticleI Quit Teach for America Too
About a month ago, a former TFA corps member named Olivia Blanchard published this superb recounting of her time in the corps in The Atlantic. Absolutely everything in the article resonated with me,...
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