Teach for America is celebrating its twentieth anniversary and there are a number of articles floating around about what works in the program and what doesn’t. One TFA alum and UVA PhD student just wrote an interesting post on Good arguing that weak literacy is the primary reason students struggle in school.
Amanda Ripley also wrote an excellent profile in The Atlantic on Steven Farr and the methods TFA use to evaluate teachers and judge what is effective and what isn’t in the classroom.
Farr and the TFA have just published a book called Teaching as Leadership that goes into more detail about the tools they use for measuring what makes a good teacher.
Tags: atlantic, education, sociology, teach for america, teaching
