Teach For America (TFA)
Teacher Preparation
Then & Now
Why We Still Haven't Solved Teacher Shortages (Despite Decades of Trying)
The teacher-shortage discourse has a long history鈥攁nd no perfect solutions.
Teacher Preparation
Q&A
Teach For America's CEO Is Stepping Down. What's Next for the Organization?
Elisa Villanueva Beard reflects on her journey leading the organization through several periods of change.
Teacher Preparation
Once a Big Player, Teach For America Tries to Regain Its Footing
A slimmed-down TFA is investing in tutoring programs and supports to keep members in the classroom.
Teaching Profession
Here's What Teach For America Alumni Believe About Charters, Vouchers, and Societal Inequities
Teach For America participants are more likely to attribute differences in student outcomes to societal inequities and less likely to support vouchers and charter schools than applicants to the program who didn't make the final cut, a new study finds.
Teaching Profession
Are Teach For America Members Allowed to Go on Strike?
Teach For America has said corps members who go on strike would lose thousands of dollars in award money.
Teaching Profession
TFA Alumni Principals Are the Harshest Critics of TFA Teachers
TFA alumni principals are less satisfied than other principals with corps members'job performance, according to a new survey.
School & District Management
TFA, Alternative Programs Marginally Better Than Traditional Teacher Prep, Study Finds
69传媒 whose teachers were trained in alternative teacher preparation programs such as Teach For America perform slightly better academically than students whose teachers had traditional teacher training, according to a recent meta-analysis.
School & District Management
Thousands of Teachers at Risk of Deportation Under DACA Repeal
Among the many undocumented immigrants awaiting the fate of DACA, which President Trump has said he plans to cancel, are thousands of K-12 and postsecondary teachers.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Who Is the Ideal Teaching Candidate?
Where do good teachers come from? How do we pick promising candidates out of the crowd? What is the secret to putting the right people in the classroom?
Teaching Profession
Opinion
The War on Teachers and the End of Public Education
We have genuinely reached a tipping point, one where we're struggling to get young people to go into teaching as professional career (as opposed to two-year adventure before law school). Our state legislators are openly declaring that teaching is now a short-term technical job, not a career, and thus public school educators don't really need a stable state pension. That's not only a war on individual teachers, but a war on teaching itself.
Teaching Profession
What Happened to All of the New Orleans Teachers Fired After Hurricane Katrina?
A new study shows that half of them never taught in Louisiana again.
Teaching Profession
Teach for America Fights Back Against Trump's Proposed AmeriCorps Cut
The teacher-training organization is urging Congress to protect AmeriCorps funding in the final budget.
Teaching Profession
Teacher Programs Face Loss of Funding With Trump's Proposed AmeriCorps Cut
The $1 billion AmeriCorps program provides money to Teach for America and other teacher-preparation organizations.
Federal
Opinion
Get Rid of the Department of Education? Why Not?
I think a case could be made that the last two administrations have so morphed the originating aims of a federal department in charge of educating all students--whether intentionally or not--we might not find the loss of a department of education and burning down 16 years of questionable policy such a loss. But then--I think of equity. We are responsible for all children. Aren't we?