This Week In Education: Events: Five Ideas For TFA's *Next* 20 Years

This Week In Education: Events: Five Ideas For TFA's *Next* 20 Years

Events: Five Ideas For TFA's *Next* 20 Years

by Alexander Russo

Here are five completely unsolicited ideas for TFA's next 20 years, on the occasion of its first: (1) Tell locals to pick one or several struggling schools, stuff them with corps members and alumns over the course of two or three years, and show everyone what you can really do at the the whole school level. Rinse, lather, repeat. (2) Stop expanding to new cities and do more in the cities you're already in. Create two or three "superlocals" to get involved in reform, short of operating schools but well beyond the current menu of training, placement, and support. (3) Get off the