Teach for America

Gary K. Clabaugh, Ed. D., writes:

"Teach for America attracts people to the classroom who are unwilling or unable to make a legitimate, much less adequate, effort to become expert teachers. Discarding the thoughtful, thorough and progressive preparation characteristic of all expert professions, Teach for America coaxes half-committed aspirants through just six weeks of summer crash course work in pedagogy. Then, with the connivance of local and state education officials, they are turned loose on kids."
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