Teach For America (TFA)
Teaching Profession
Teach For America: Same Story, Different Times
Coverage of Teach For America sounds the same, but the organization is vastly different 25 years later.
Education
Teach For America: Salvation or 'Disservice'?
Two-and-a-half years ago, a Princeton University undergraduate named Wendy S. Kopp wrote a senior thesis that raised its share of professorial eyebrows.
Teaching Profession
Three TFA Teachers Resign After Leak of Offensive Messages About Students
Teachers have resigned after being caught sending insulting and expletive-ridden messages about their students, sparking criticism of Teach for America itself.
Equity & Diversity
News in Brief
TFA 'Education for Justice' Pilot Training Effort to Fold
Teach For America has announced that it is winding down a pilot program that gave some of its recruits a year of additional training related to cultural diversity.
Teaching Profession
Teach For America Ends Pre-Training Pilot Focused on Cultural Competency
The social justice-oriented TFA pilot will end, but TFA says it will apply lessons to new recruitment efforts.
Teacher Preparation
Teach For America Vows Recruitment Changes in Wake of Application Drop
TFA will streamline its application process in the wake of a third year of application declines.
Teaching Profession
News in Brief
In Shakeup, TFA Cuts 15 Percent of Staff
Teach For America is laying off some of its national and regional staff as part of its transition to a less-centralized business model.
Teaching Profession
In Shakeup, Teach For America to Lay Off Staff
The cuts will reduce Teach For America's staff by 15 percent.
Teaching Profession
New York Board Paves Way for Undocumented Immigrants to Get Teacher Licenses
New York looks to join other states in allowing DREAMers, undocumented immigrants brought here by their parents as children, to attain teaching licenses.
Teacher Preparation
What I Learned in Reporting About Teach For America's 25th Anniversary
Some key themes from Education Week's series of stories looking at the venerable teacher-placement organization.
Teacher Preparation
At 25, Teach For America Enters Period of Change
Among other new initiatives, the famously protective organization has quietly begun devolving more authority to its 52 regions, some of which are pushing the boundaries of the group's model.
Teaching Profession
TFA Tests Waters on Improving Retention
A number of TFA's regions are experimenting with strategies for extending corps members' tenure in teaching beyond two years.
College & Workforce Readiness
Pilot Gives TFA Recruits Pre-Training in Cultural Competency
The Education for Justice program, taken by select TFA candidates during their senior year of college, is based on feedback from principals, parents, and teacher educators.
Teacher Preparation
Outside the Classroom, TFA Leaves Increasingly Complex Political Trail
The organization is putting a greater emphasis on equity and racial issues, even as its bona fides as a social-justice organization are fiercely contested.