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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As Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the US.
New Cold War crazier than the old one; Black and Latino workers face global south conditions inside the US; supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal demand his freedom in Philly.
Supporters of Mumia Abu Jamal rallied in Philadelphia, demanding that District Attorney Larry Krasner not thwart his appeal of a police murder conviction, 38 years ago.
Black and Latino workers in the US are more favorable to unions because they “are most like workers in the Global South,” where workers are super-exploited, said Michael Yates, the
“The peril of this new Cold War is especially great,” said Russia expert Stephen Cohen, “because even when Trump does something sensible with Russia on behalf of our national secur
