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 US may, for once, be doing the right thing in the Congo, although undoubtedly for its own imperial reasons.
Street activism led to an historic murder conviction of a killer cop, but then a racist judge let him off with a light sentence.
The only reason our sister is being held captive is to once again demonstrate how a runaway slave is treated.
it is merely a fantasy to believe that the struggle to bring socialism in the United States will not involve a revolutionary struggle against the state.
This week we present readers’ thoughts on Kamala Harris, fact checking in the media, and possibilities for the Green New Deal.
