If you stop and think about it, Teach for America (TFA) and The New Teacher Project (TNTP) are well-functioning, non-profit, national human resource departments for schools. They recruit, screen, and hire candidates, all functions of a traditional HR department. TFA and TNTP do provide a lot more induction and support for their hires, but at [...]
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Teach For America Growth
There’s a cottage industry of journalists and commentators who criticize Teach for America (TFA) as being unscalable. Their main complaint is that, while a worthy program (and they always acknowledge TFA’s success), the number of teachers entering the profession through this route is tiny compared to the total workforce. In a piece that is typical [...]
Hired, Not Hired
Here are descriptions of two teachers hired for the 2008-2009 school year in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD):
Bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Studies of Health Science from U of Texas – Arlington, with no advanced degree, applied August, now teaching Special Education.
Philosophy graduate from Florida International, with graduate degrees in Digital Media and Buddhist [...]
Which Teachers?
All the top consulting, legal, financial, and engineering firms keep a list of schools from which they recruit students each year. They don’t attend job fairs at Directional State University, because (supposedly) DSU graduates aren’t at the same caliber of those from Harvard, Yale, or other elites. What if you could test it, though? What [...]
What Will Rhee Do?
Many thanks to Kevin, Sara, Erin, and Eduwonk on leading the discussion on the DC Public Schools mess. But for those of you who had never heard of Michelle Rhee until yesterday when she was named DCPS Chancellor, or see no hope in her and Mayor Fenty overcoming the disarray that’s been exposed, I’ve got [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.