#ResistTFA Tops Twitter Trend in United States
From DianeRavitch.net:
The student-led movement to defend the teaching profession is off to a fast start:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPress Contacts:Stephanie Rivera
Rutgers University
1.732.485.0508 srrivera92@gmail.comHannah Nguyen
University of Southern California
1.408.644.9717 hbnguyen@usc.edu#ResistTFA (Resist Teach For America) Hashtag Tops Twitter Trend ListFebruary 18 – Chicago, IL – The hashtag, #ResistTFA (Resist Teach For America), topped the Twitter trend list in the United States beginning around 9pm EST on February 17, 2014, and remained there well into the night. For much of the evening, #ResistTFA was more popular on Twitter than “Olympics”, #JimmyFallon, and #TheTonightShow on the night of Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show debut.Students United for Public Education (SUPE), a grassroots, student-led organization founded by Stephanie Rivera, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education Student & Urban Teaching Fellow, and Hannah Nguyen, University of Southern California Student and SUPE Chapter Leader, organized the #ResistTFA “Twitter Chat” Monday evening as part of SUPE’s “Students Resisting Teach For America” national campaign. The goal of the event was to initiate a public debate around critical issues related to Teach For America’s impact on public education. Teach For America is a controversial nonprofit organization that places high-achieving college graduates in low-income school districts across the country to teach for a minimum of two years after receiving just five weeks of summer training. The timing of the #ResistTFA “Twitter Chat” was selected to coincide with Teach For America’s final 2014 application deadline.Participants in the #ResistTFA “Twitter Chat” included students, former TFA participants,