by Education Radio
Founded in 1990 by Wendy Kopp, Teach For America has become the personnel agency for corporate school reform. School districts fire experienced, often black teachers to hire underpaid TFA recruits with 5 weeks training to do brief "missionary work" stints in public schools before moving on. Turning teaching into Wal-Mart style temp work is what TFA is all about.
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This book offers lessons for people interested in organizing around health status, for building health systems.
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The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors.
The U.S. has gone extra miles to support French military efforts to protect uranium mining in Niger.
From photos of lynchers to videos of brutal cops, there is a radical heritage of using images of violence as instruments of critique.
