Content tagged: teach for america
Teach for America to Replace Veteran Teachers: Part II
On June 12, Education Week’s Stephen Sawchuk published a piece (“N.C. District Lets Go of Veteran Teachers, But Keeps TFA Hires”) on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board’s decision to, approve plans to fire hundreds of Veteran...
Teach for America to Replace Certified Teachers
From Teach for America to the KIPP charter schools to instructional innovations at colleges and universities, we have proven strategies ready to go to scale. — Secretary of Education Arne Ducan at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education, February 9, 2009 According to a...
Secretary Arne Duncan Speaks at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered remarks today at the American Council on Education’s (ACE) 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The ACE represents accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities and higher education in the U.S. Together, ACE member institutions represent almost 80 percent of today’s college students. Good...
"The Political Economy of Educational Restructuring: On the Origin of Performance Pay and Obama’s “Blueprint” for Education," in The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? (Information Age Publishing)