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...midst of the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush had a private breakfast in Los Angeles with members of Teach for America (TFA), the exemplary national-service program that sends recent college graduates to teach for two years in the poorest urban and rural school districts. "Everyone came out of that room glowing," said Wendy Kopp, the founder of TFA. "He really understood education and cared about what we did. He sounds like us, one of our teachers told...
...Kopp was optimistic that TFA, one of the flagship AmeriCorps programs, would have a future in a Bush Administration. Indeed, Kopp was invited to sit in the First Lady's box at Bush's first budget message to Congress in February 2001. At the same time, Teach for America was designated as one of five education and literacy programs that would receive special attention and support from Laura Bush. In 2002, the President in his State of the Union address called for increased national service and then illustrated what he meant by visiting a Teach for America school in Atlanta...
...first glance, it seems that the numbers David M. DeBartolo ’03 cites in his recent op-ed about Teach for America (TFA) speak for themselves (“Teaching for America”, Feb. 10). There is a critical shortage of teachers, and TFA receives thousands of applications from eager, idealistic and well-qualified aspiring teachers. How can TFA turn away any one of these individuals...
...truly challenging experience is already an uncertain proposition, as well as a costly one. Teach for America takes this on each summer prior to sending corps members to their respective sites around the country. Maintaining quality as quantity increases is not only critical for the survival of TFA, but far more importantly, it is critical for the children in thousands of classrooms that will be led by TFA recruits...
Also, it is important to note that TFA does nothing to “inhibit” well-qualified individuals from making a difference in our public schools. In Baltimore, where I teach, there are other avenues, such as Project Site Support, for non-certified individuals to teach in the schools here. I sincerely hope that a rejection letter from Teach for America would not turn someone away from teaching altogether...