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 assumption is these women are uneducated or without skills beyond cleaning or caring for children and adults.
Strong condemnations from the NAACP and Black Congressional Caucus of Amazon’s treatment of its workers might have made a difference in the strike vote,
Corporate reality police have stablished themselves as the authorities on what constitutes “information” or “disinformation.”
The US is the anti-democratic force undermining the will of Venezuelans as the US steals their resources and money.
French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously the dollar’s special status called America’s “exorbitant privilege” – which it might be in the process of losing
