A Smart Way to Enlist, Induct, and Create Good Teachers for Urban Schools
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The Smart Way to enlist, induct, and create good teachers for urban schools is not Teach for America–even with all the ballyhoo and hype from edu-preneurs and reigning policy elites from both political parties. Five weeks of training in the summer, sporadic support during the full-time job during the year as they earn their credential, and then two years later–gone in the wind. Two year commitment with little support for even elite college graduates do not a teacher make.
The Smart Way comes from the largest charter organization in California, Aspire Public Schools. The first 18
