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 absence of a domestic backlash against US Africa policy is testament to the blind spots of our movement.
The British, both left and right, simply do not want to acknowledge the role their government played in destroying Libya and the attendant migration crises.
The violence of slave-owning women especially could go unchecked, particularly when the victims were black children.
The rarely used statute could put protesters accused of using violence in prison for up to 20 years.
While the US continues to suffer the devastating impacts of poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s people-centered approach serves as a model to follow.
