Reformies = Liars
The time has come to start using the "L" word with these people:
TFA got caught in a huge lie when they claimed that 41% of the first years get at least 1.5 years of gains, and once you are outed as a liar it does cast a shadow over your other claims, even if some of those other claims happened to be true. This is why it is best not to lie. Even in this statement, they cite a favorite statistic that 2/3 of alumni are still ‘in education.’ This is also a stretch. Can any TFAer out there even claim that 2/3 of the people that they know from TFA are still ‘in education’? This is a crazy statistic. Does ‘in education’ mean to TFA what ‘all beef’ means to McDonalds? I would love to see a list of the professions of the 22,000 alumni that make up those 2/3 and what it is they do that qualifies as ‘in education.’ If TFA would be more honest, I would stop writing about those lies. [emphasis mine]That's Gary Rubinstein, the Jiminy Cricket of Teach For America. He goes on to point us to a new report from Ed