To Understand Teach for America, See Who Funds The Organization
Follow the money is a basic principle.
To understand an organization, see who funds it.
Take Teach for America.
It presents itself to the public as a noble charity.
Unfortunately, it promotes the bad idea that anyone with five weeks of training can teach. That has the effect of undermining teaching as a profession.
Does anyone believe that five weeks of training is adequate to become a doctor or lawyer or architect or engineer?
TFA supplies the workforce for a large proportion of charter schools, 90% of which are non-union.
TFA simultaneously undermines the teaching profession and teacher unionism, which assures that teachers have rights and voice in the workplace.
Who would promote these goals? .
Wendy Kopp proposed the idea for Teach For America in her Princeton University undergraduate thesis in 1989. In 1990, a charter corps of 500... more »
Who funds Teach for America?