/teach-for-america-tfa Teach For America (TFA) en-US 2021 (c) Education Week Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:49:20 GMT /teaching-learning/why-we-still-havent-solved-teacher-shortages-despite-decades-of-trying/2024/10 The teacher-shortage discourse has a long history—and no perfect solutions. Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:49:20 GMT /teaching-learning/why-we-still-havent-solved-teacher-shortages-despite-decades-of-trying/2024/10 /teaching-learning/teach-for-americas-ceo-is-stepping-down-whats-next-for-the-organization/2024/01 Elisa Villanueva Beard reflects on her journey leading the organization through several periods of change. Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:16:00 GMT /teaching-learning/teach-for-americas-ceo-is-stepping-down-whats-next-for-the-organization/2024/01 /teaching-learning/once-a-big-player-teach-for-america-tries-to-regain-its-footing/2023/08 A slimmed-down TFA is investing in tutoring programs and supports to keep members in the classroom. Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:32:55 GMT /teaching-learning/once-a-big-player-teach-for-america-tries-to-regain-its-footing/2023/08 /teaching-learning/heres-what-teach-for-america-alumni-believe-about-charters-vouchers-and-societal-inequities/2019/10 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. Tue, 08 Oct 2019 05:36:51 GMT /teaching-learning/heres-what-teach-for-america-alumni-believe-about-charters-vouchers-and-societal-inequities/2019/10 /teaching-learning/are-teach-for-america-members-allowed-to-go-on-strike/2019/02 Teach For America has said corps members who go on strike would lose thousands of dollars in award money. Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:32:08 GMT /teaching-learning/are-teach-for-america-members-allowed-to-go-on-strike/2019/02 /teaching-learning/tfa-alumni-principals-are-the-harshest-critics-of-tfa-teachers/2018/01 TFA alumni principals are less satisfied than other principals with corps members'job performance, according to a new survey. Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:18:59 GMT /teaching-learning/tfa-alumni-principals-are-the-harshest-critics-of-tfa-teachers/2018/01 /leadership/tfa-alternative-programs-marginally-better-than-traditional-teacher-prep-study-finds/2017/11 69´«Ă½ 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. Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:51:42 GMT /leadership/tfa-alternative-programs-marginally-better-than-traditional-teacher-prep-study-finds/2017/11 /leadership/thousands-of-teachers-at-risk-of-deportation-under-daca-repeal/2017/09 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. Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:46:40 GMT /leadership/thousands-of-teachers-at-risk-of-deportation-under-daca-repeal/2017/09 /teaching-learning/opinion-who-is-the-ideal-teaching-candidate/2017/08 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? Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:08:27 GMT /teaching-learning/opinion-who-is-the-ideal-teaching-candidate/2017/08 /teaching-learning/opinion-the-war-on-teachers-and-the-end-of-public-education/2017/06 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. Fri, 16 Jun 2017 14:07:57 GMT /teaching-learning/opinion-the-war-on-teachers-and-the-end-of-public-education/2017/06 /teaching-learning/what-happened-to-all-of-the-new-orleans-teachers-fired-after-hurricane-katrina/2017/05 A new study shows that half of them never taught in Louisiana again. Wed, 31 May 2017 16:53:19 GMT /teaching-learning/what-happened-to-all-of-the-new-orleans-teachers-fired-after-hurricane-katrina/2017/05 /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-fights-back-against-trumps-proposed-americorps-cut/2017/03 The teacher-training organization is urging Congress to protect AmeriCorps funding in the final budget. Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:47:03 GMT /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-fights-back-against-trumps-proposed-americorps-cut/2017/03 /teaching-learning/teacher-programs-face-loss-of-funding-with-trumps-proposed-americorps-cut/2017/03 The $1 billion AmeriCorps program provides money to Teach for America and other teacher-preparation organizations. Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:07:59 GMT /teaching-learning/teacher-programs-face-loss-of-funding-with-trumps-proposed-americorps-cut/2017/03 /policy-politics/opinion-get-rid-of-the-department-of-education-why-not/2016/11 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? Fri, 11 Nov 2016 20:43:35 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-get-rid-of-the-department-of-education-why-not/2016/11 /teaching-learning/after-the-election-daca-teachers-wonder-about-their-future-in-the-classroom/2016/11 For nearly 150 Teach for America teachers who have temporary resident status through DACA, the election's outcome signals an unknown future. Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:02:00 GMT /teaching-learning/after-the-election-daca-teachers-wonder-about-their-future-in-the-classroom/2016/11 /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-same-story-different-times/2016/08 Coverage of Teach For America sounds the same, but the organization is vastly different 25 years later. Mon, 01 Aug 2016 13:58:00 GMT /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-same-story-different-times/2016/08 /education/teach-for-america-salvation-or-disservice/2016/07 Two-and-a-half years ago, a Princeton University undergraduate named Wendy S. Kopp wrote a senior thesis that raised its share of professorial eyebrows. Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:35:48 GMT /education/teach-for-america-salvation-or-disservice/2016/07 /teaching-learning/three-tfa-teachers-resign-after-leak-of-offensive-messages-about-students/2016/06 Teachers have resigned after being caught sending insulting and expletive-ridden messages about their students, sparking criticism of Teach for America itself. Thu, 23 Jun 2016 20:33:00 GMT /teaching-learning/three-tfa-teachers-resign-after-leak-of-offensive-messages-about-students/2016/06 /leadership/tfa-education-for-justice-pilot-training-effort-to-fold/2016/05 Teach For America has announced that it is winding down a pilot program that gave some of its recruits a year of additional training related to cultural diversity. Tue, 17 May 2016 00:36:07 GMT /leadership/tfa-education-for-justice-pilot-training-effort-to-fold/2016/05 /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-ends-pre-training-pilot-focused-on-cultural-competency/2016/05 The social justice-oriented TFA pilot will end, but TFA says it will apply lessons to new recruitment efforts. Fri, 06 May 2016 19:36:00 GMT /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-ends-pre-training-pilot-focused-on-cultural-competency/2016/05 /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-vows-recruitment-changes-in-wake-of-application-drop/2016/04 TFA will streamline its application process in the wake of a third year of application declines. Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:47:00 GMT /teaching-learning/teach-for-america-vows-recruitment-changes-in-wake-of-application-drop/2016/04 /teaching-learning/in-shakeup-tfa-cuts-15-percent-of-staff/2016/03 Teach For America is laying off some of its national and regional staff as part of its transition to a less-centralized business model. Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:29:11 GMT /teaching-learning/in-shakeup-tfa-cuts-15-percent-of-staff/2016/03 /teaching-learning/in-shakeup-teach-for-america-to-lay-off-staff/2016/03 The cuts will reduce Teach For America's staff by 15 percent. Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:21:12 GMT /teaching-learning/in-shakeup-teach-for-america-to-lay-off-staff/2016/03 /teaching-learning/new-york-board-paves-way-for-undocumented-immigrants-to-get-teacher-licenses/2016/03 New York looks to join other states in allowing DREAMers, undocumented immigrants brought here by their parents as children, to attain teaching licenses. Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:00:29 GMT /teaching-learning/new-york-board-paves-way-for-undocumented-immigrants-to-get-teacher-licenses/2016/03 /teaching-learning/what-i-learned-in-reporting-about-teach-for-americas-25th-anniversary/2016/01 Some key themes from Education Week's series of stories looking at the venerable teacher-placement organization. Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:29:00 GMT /teaching-learning/what-i-learned-in-reporting-about-teach-for-americas-25th-anniversary/2016/01 /teaching-learning/tfa-tests-waters-on-improving-retention/2016/01 A number of TFA's regions are experimenting with strategies for extending corps members' tenure in teaching beyond two years. Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:40:13 GMT /teaching-learning/tfa-tests-waters-on-improving-retention/2016/01 /teaching-learning/pilot-gives-tfa-recruits-pre-training-in-cultural-competency/2016/01 The Education for Justice program, taken by select TFA candidates during their senior year of college, is based on feedback from principals, parents, and teacher educators. Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:40:13 GMT /teaching-learning/pilot-gives-tfa-recruits-pre-training-in-cultural-competency/2016/01 /teaching-learning/outside-the-classroom-tfa-leaves-increasingly-complex-political-trail/2016/01 The organization is putting a greater emphasis on equity and racial issues, even as its bona fides as a social-justice organization are fiercely contested. Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:40:13 GMT /teaching-learning/outside-the-classroom-tfa-leaves-increasingly-complex-political-trail/2016/01 /teaching-learning/at-25-teach-for-america-enters-period-of-change/2016/01 The organization has begun devolving more authority to its 52 regions, some of which are pushing the boundaries of the group's model. Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:40:13 GMT /teaching-learning/at-25-teach-for-america-enters-period-of-change/2016/01 /teaching-profession/new-realities-tfa-at-25/2016/01/00000175-4777-d2e8-af77-f77f5a4a0002 As Teach For America marks its 25th anniversary, this special package looks at recent changes the group has embarked on as it enters a new era. Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:06:03 GMT /teaching-profession/new-realities-tfa-at-25/2016/01/00000175-4777-d2e8-af77-f77f5a4a0002