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Wendy Kopp The founder and CEO of Teach for America is a past TIME 100 honoree Teach for America alum Tom Torkelson is proving that children from low-income communities can achieve. His Idea Academy and College Preparatory was ranked the 19th best high school and sixth best charter school in the country. All 100% of Tom's high school graduates have gone to college...
...apple pie--who's not for it? Indeed, the bill had overwhelming bipartisan support. But at a time of economic distress and dislocation, service has come to seem like a silver bullet that can help address some of our most intractable problems. Applications for AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps and Teach for America are pouring in--there are many more applicants than spots. Is that due to the economy? Perhaps. The bill authorizes $5.7 billion for national service over the next five years, which can jump-start a range of programs to help schools, health care and the environment...
...even that would have posed complications. Professors said that it would be costly to teach individual seminars to a capped number of students in a full-fledged great books program—especially since Harvard has slowed down hiring, and any Gen Ed class would take professors’ time away from teaching department classes...
...Some professors say that it would be key for professors—not postdocs and graduate students—to be the ones who would teach such courses...
...Russell said in a phone interview from Israel, where is now on sabbatical, that he is now no longer planning on teaching the course as a freshman seminar—nor is he planning to teach any Gen Ed classes, House seminars, or freshman seminars. From now on, he said, he will simply teach Armenian studies...