Leadership for Educational Equity - the master plan for Teach for America
Those who have been paying attention know that some years ago Teach for America ceased being an organization providing bright students from good colleges to fill in at schools where there were a lack of certified teachers to being an organization that serves as a way-station on the way to other careers.
What many may not realize is how formalized this has become, not merely with the preferential admission to graduate and professional schools after 2 years of service in TFA, but also a parallel organization, Leadership for Educational Equity, which seeks to place former corps members into positions of influence in politics and policy.
To help understand the scope of this, I strongly recommend that you read Teach For America's Deep Bench fromAmerican Prospect. This piece, by James Cersonsky, from last October, provides a clear and potent description of what the TFA apparatus is seeking.
Here are two key early paragraphs from the article:
What many may not realize is how formalized this has become, not merely with the preferential admission to graduate and professional schools after 2 years of service in TFA, but also a parallel organization, Leadership for Educational Equity, which seeks to place former corps members into positions of influence in politics and policy.
To help understand the scope of this, I strongly recommend that you read Teach For America's Deep Bench fromAmerican Prospect. This piece, by James Cersonsky, from last October, provides a clear and potent description of what the TFA apparatus is seeking.
Here are two key early paragraphs from the article:
Since its founding, TFA has amassed some 28,000 alumni. Two have made Time’s “Most
