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...this month—based on the argument that corps members are replacing laid-off teachers—illuminates anxieties about a program that more Harvard students are flocking to than ever before. Boston Public Schools plans to place TFA recruits in about 20 local positions, which Joshua Z. Biber, TFA recruiter for the greater Boston area, said was not a result of layoffs. “Even with some potential cuts in some areas, they are still making hires in the district, particularly in subject areas and local areas of high need,” Biber said...
...make a difference anyway and each led his team in both rebounds and assists. Lin notched his first double-double of the season with his impressive rebound effort, grabbing 11 total boards.Pusar shined for the Crimson, notching a game-high 19 points on 8-11 shooting. Only junior Dan Biber scored double-digits for Dartmouth, putting up 10 points on 4-5 shooting.Dartmouth will play two more home games before a rematch at Harvard, while the Crimson take a 13-day break for finals.—Staff writer Paul T. Hedrick can be reached at phedrick@fas.harvard.edu...
...however, that simply because TFA will likely receive more applications, the selection process will not necessarily be less rigorous.“The challenges that corps members face are immense,” she said. “TFA is selective for that reason.”Joshua Z. Biber, a former corps member and graduate of Brown University, who is now the TFA recruiter for the greater Boston area, felt similarly. “TFA is not to be anyone’s back-up plan,” he said. “It needs...
...medicine, and finance. The conference, called Diversity in Careers Awareness (DICA) and designed to help students make contacts in industries like public health and public interest, featured representatives for different fields who participated in one-hour panel discussions, the first of which was focused on education. Joshua Biber, a representative from Teach for America, talked about his own experiences of going to a career fair at Brown University and realizing that he did not like anything there. Because of his interest in “empowering marginalized communities,” Biber said, he began working for the teaching program...
...defer job offers for two years in order to teach with TFA. But few follow through with their business aspirations. “It’s a very small portion of our actual alumni who are in business, around four percent,” says Joshua Z. Biber, TFA’s Boston director for new site development. Biber reports that before joining TFA, ten percent of corps members considered teaching after college. But two-thirds of corps members continue teaching following their two years in TFA, with one-third of alumni working in low-income communities.Still, Biber recognizes...