Teaching
European and Asian education systems are often heralded as superior to the U.S. In those education systems, prospective teachers do this.
What is spend several years training?
A nation at risk is couched in language from this era
What is the Cold War?
This is a primary difference between teacher candidates that urban residency programs recruit versus TFA
What is racial demographics? (Urban residency programs recruits are almost half candidates of color)
The Education Trust found that these children served as "training fodder for inexperienced teachers"
What are poor children?
TFA's Teaching for Leadership handbook explicitly says that this system is less powerful than the individual teacher.
What is racism?
When Tennessee introduced merit pay, teachers soon noticed that this group always got the extra pay, while they got just 13 percent.
Who are principles?
No Child Left Behind did this to the curriculum (note: I'm not asking about standards)
What is narrow?
In 2000, this percentage of Black students were in majority-white schools.
What is 28?
This is how much the "superintendent of the year" in Atlanta collected in bonuses after encouraging cheating and firing whiste-blowing teachers.
What is $580,000?
When TFA started out its trainings were 8 weeks long. In 2013 they were this long.
What is 5 weeks?
Chester Finn told our author that principles were often formerly this kind of teacher.
What is gym?
This economic situation made Race to the Top irresistible for states
What is the great recession?
The achievement gap is driven by these factors, instead of these other ones (at least according to this celebrated study)
What are out of school factors rather than in school factors?
This was the explanation Berliner and Biddle gave for why SAT scores declined between the 1960s-70s
What is children from poor and diverse backgrounds were now taking the test?
Unexpectedly, many TFA alum are found in these drives at charter schools.
What are unionizing drives?
Ranking employees--teachers or otherwise--encourages this instead of this, which harms overall productivity.
What is competition instead of collaboration?
This is one innovation introduced after A Nation at Risk that union leader Al Shanker endorsed.
What is peer review?
These three Black democrats represented the shift to technocratic management in education policy.
Who are Cory Booker, Adrian Fenty, and Barack Obama?
Wendy Kopp and KIPP both believe this myth, which Bowles and Gintis disproved in the 1970s
What is that education is the way out of poverty?
Goldstein says TFA is more about this than classroom instruction
What is politics?
Teacher residency programs differ from TFA in these two ways
What are they prefer teachers who want a long career in teaching and they make recruits spend a whole school year in a teacher's classroom (instead of 5 weeks training)?
This was one of the biggest impacts of Race to the Top
What is the rapid increase in student testing and assessment?
When TFA training failed Alex Pearl, this veteran Black teacher stepped in.
Who is Cleopatra Duncan?
Mass dismissals of "underperforming" urban public schools are based on this false assumption
What is that veteran teachers are responsible for low test scores?
While TFA alleges to fix the achievement gap between rich and poor schools, 85 percent of recruits who stay in teaching do this.
What is transfer to better (funded) schools?