Teach For America Setting Sights on Pre-K | Edweek.org
Education Week
9 February 2007
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Teach for America, a programme which recruits new graduates (in any field but teaching) to teach for at least two years in under-served areas is extending its primary and secondary programmes to include pre-kindergarten. Criticisms of TFA's placement of new, low-paid graduates in some of the country's most challenging teaching situations have been loud and continue. But not even detractors can deny the urgency of the unmet need for educated (which is not to say trained) teachers in parts of the USA. Now that TFA has ventured into founding and staffing early-childhood programmes, the crash-course training methods and "perhapts not the best -- but better than nothing" mantra of TFA will be under fire again. And rightly so.
9 February 2007
(article by online subscription or purchase only)
Teach for America, a programme which recruits new graduates (in any field but teaching) to teach for at least two years in under-served areas is extending its primary and secondary programmes to include pre-kindergarten. Criticisms of TFA's placement of new, low-paid graduates in some of the country's most challenging teaching situations have been loud and continue. But not even detractors can deny the urgency of the unmet need for educated (which is not to say trained) teachers in parts of the USA. Now that TFA has ventured into founding and staffing early-childhood programmes, the crash-course training methods and "perhapts not the best -- but better than nothing" mantra of TFA will be under fire again. And rightly so.
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