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Do Americans Hate Teachers, Or are they Duped

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From et-foundation.co.uk/supporting/support-practitioners/professional-standards/: Professional Standards for FE Teacher
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"Nancy Bailey expresses her astonishment that corporations and universities continue to fund TFA even though there is no evidence for its efficacy. By sending inexperienced teachers to replace veteran teachers, they are harming children and degrading the profession.  The reality is that TFA supplies the temp labor force for non-union schools, specifically, charter schools. Do Americans understand that by contributing to a turnaround group of young novices to be teachers, they are destroying the American teaching profession? Do they know that sooner or later there will be no more real, qualified teachers to instruct their students?Are they not aware that fast-track trained beginners, who focus on data, digital instruction, and classroom control, and who are never intent on becoming teachers until they recruited, are not the best individuals to lead a classroom?"

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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