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    Disinformation About Teach For America

    Guy Brandenburg shows us why the reader must always beware. This means when you're reading The Atlantic as well as The National Enquirer or New York Times editorials on education.

    by Guy Brandenburg

    Amanda Ripley’s recent article in The Atlantic wildly exaggerates the supposed positive benefits of having a Teach for America (TFA) teacher in the classroom. After reading the article, you might come away believing that TFA teachers regularly work miracles in their classroom, just like Michelle Rhee pretends she did, while their do-nothing veteran colleagues just sit and read the newspaper in class. (Although, funny thing: the super-achieving teacher described in the article was NOT a TFA-er!)

    However, if you read the published data that Ripley refers to, they show that both TFA teachers and other teachers in high-poverty schools are having a hard time getting any positive results at all. . . .

    For the rest of this discussion which includes graphs, go here.

    — Guy Brandenburg
    GF Brandenburg's Blog
    2010-01-12
    http://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com

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