Is Teach For America Part of A Global Phenomenon?
Well, in the global age, isn’t everything?
Click here to read a post by Lois Weiner, educator, author, and researcher about Teach for America and the global trend that it represents for teachers, public schools, unions, and working people around the world.
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From my experience with TFA I’ve found it to be decisively anti-union, to the point of union scapegoating. That said, Teach for America in its worldwide partnerships has certainly adopted the language and techniques of globalization. Take for example this list of goals in its partnership with Teach for All:
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Organizations that are part of the Teach For All network are independent, locally governed and locally funded. Teach For All’s central operation will support the development of these local organizations by:
Sharing programmatic best practices: Teach For All will help local entities establish the highest-quality programs for recruiting, selecting, training, developing, and fostering the leadership of program participants, and over time will capture local innovations to spread throughout the Teach For All network.
Building private and public sector support: Teach For All will assist local entities in building the necessary governmental and private sector support through leveraging records of past performance track records and existing relationships, including facilitating funding and recruitment partnerships with international funders.
Anticipating organizational development needs: Teach For All will help local entities quickly put in place the structure and organizational systems necessary to foster success.
Fostering a global network: Teach For All will build a network among programs across the world to accelerate learning and create participant, alumni, and organizational exchange opportunities.
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http://www.teachforamerica.org/about/special_initiatives/teach_for_all.htm
I haven’t read the book, but El Salvador notwithstanding, there’s an American movement to destroy unionism and the middle class that I don’t really see taking root in countries I know to actually have a middle class. We’re one of the last strongholds of unionism, pathetic though our leaders may be, and that’s why rich and powerful forces are aligned against us.
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