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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The history of the transcontinental railroad is a process of “continental imperialism.”
The American website Black Agenda Report commented on the protests in Sudan and got it completely wrong.
Delegates to a conference on Global Africa at Oxford University say Zionists and their apologists are targeting the academy.
A truly radical counterhegemony can only be realized by disassociating both blackness and manhood from capitalist registers of worth.
Tenants fight back and win in the city with the nation’s highest rate of gentrification, by far.
