is Teach For America: From Service Group to Industry by Rachel Levy. It went up at Alternet this morning. It is thorough, and it is well documented, with tons of terrific links.

I want to give you a ful sense of the article, so below the fold I will quote several paragraphs, albeit without the many hotlinks embedded therein. But here, let me simply quote Rachel's conclusion, so you can have a sense of the power of what she offers:

It’s time to stop allowing achievement and privilege to masquerade as competence, dedication, and skill. It’s time for the grown-ups who promote TFA to acknowledge that the quality teaching that we all agree is so valuable comes from experience. It’s time to stop letting TFA stand in the way of committed, skilled, and experienced teachers our kids so desperately need.

And what do you say, Ivy grads, if we accept that you are talented with much to offer America's school children, would you accept that teaching is a profession? In other words, talent matters, but is worthless without practice. Would you still teach for America if it wasn’t in Teach For America?

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