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read more »I was just wondering if this was still going. I moved the blog to garyrubinstein.wordpress.com. Are new Corps Members even told about this? Find me on Twitter if you want to chat.
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read more »Read the post here. The teachforus.org site is not being maintained anymore. It isn’t even possible, right now, to see the most recent posts. My guess is that there was too much ‘truth’ on the site so TFA encouraged the people who maintain it to not do so anymore. For me, it won’t make a…
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read more »With social media, I suppose I can say that I ‘know’ someone if we’ve sent tweets to each other over the years. This is the case with Michael Petrilli. He is executive vice president of The Fordham Institute, and, according to his bio on their site, he is “one of the nation’s most trusted education…
read more »Follow this link to get to the post on my new blog location. Unfortunately, teachforus.org is not being maintained anymore so it has been crashing for about three months. I do think that TFA is behind this, but I don’t want to waste energy writing about it. If you subscribe to this blog, please subscribe…
read more »A little over three years ago, I first encountered Arne Duncan when he spoke at the TFA 20 year alumni summit and described the miracle school Urban Prep. He implied that this school had a 100% graduation rate and a 100% college acceptance rate, which inspired me to investigate this clam leading to my very…
read more »On the subway yesterday, I saw this advertisement for KIPP: The claim is that “Our K-12 public schools promise to see each child to and through college.” One problem with this claim is that even in the most generous study possible, KIPP’s own, only a third of students who completed KIPPs middle schools eventually graduated…
read more »TFA has been recently taking a beating in social media. Whether in response to this, or if it is just something that’s been planned for a while, the two co-CEOs Elisa Villanueva-Beard and Matt Kramer were part of a live webcast tonight called ‘What’s Next at Teach For America?” This was an hour long live…
read more »By a somewhat frustrated 1991 alum
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