Schools Matter: Teach for America's Domestic Corporate Colonialism Becomes a Model for Duncan

Schools Matter: Teach for America's Domestic Corporate Colonialism Becomes a Model for Duncan:

Teach for America's Domestic Corporate Colonialism Becomes a Model for Duncan

by Jim Horn

Teach for America recruits seniors from high-flying colleges and universities to put in a two-year stint learning to teach on other people's children (only 1 in 20 has any field experience under a professional teacher). Competition is stiff to get in, even as TFA spends more on recruiting than it does on training, which consists principally of four weeks of summer indoctrination prior to teaching.

Most of the upper class TFA 2-year temps are female and 70 percent are white, thus setting them apart from the children they are selected to "educate" who are all poor and almost all black. So while Caitlin and Megan pore over the graduate catalogs of Yale and Princeton during this horrible economy, tsk, they can build up their resumes for one of the