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Exit Right
"Bye Bye Rick Santorum," Left in Alabama tweeted this afternoon. "Time to shake the Etch-a-Sketch." But does Santorum's exit from the GOP race really give Mitt Romney a chance to wiggle back toward the center? Not without a level of finesse that the presumptive nominee's campaign has failed to show so far. The surprising staying power of the hardest-core conservative in the race made it tougher for Romney to take less-than-extreme positions on reproductive rights, immigration, or damn near anything else. And the base voters who backed Santorum must still be wooed and reassured. Romney has spent most of this campaign taking the "severest" stances possible to sooth these folks. Most remain unsoothed.
How much room Romney has to maneuver also depends, to a lesser degree, on how Santorum decides to handle his loss to the man he declared was "the worst Republican in the country to put up against Obama." Will he make nice and be a loyal soldier, endorsing Romney (whom he didn't mention today) and keeping quiet about his erstwhile opponent's conservative apostasies? Or will he try to position himself as leader of the right-wing purity movement, perhaps with an eye toward 2016? Until the end, Santorum never let up on Romney, as his recent attack ad—which accused Romney of many of President Obama's most heinous sins against conservative orthodoxy—vividly demonstrated. Walking it back will demolish his credibility with the conservatives for whom, as the Prospect's Jamelle Bouie writes, he became "the vessel for conservative discontent." But what's more important, as we move into general-election mode, is that Romney can't erase the hard-line positions Santorum was instrumental in forcing him to take.
So They Say
"What I tried to bring to the battle was what Abraham Lincoln brought to this battlefield back in 1863, November 19th. He talked about this country being conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
—Rick Santorum, surrendering at Gettysburg
Daily Meme: The Twitterverse Strikes Back
- @pourmecoffee: Rick Santorum suspending his campaign to be President of the 1950s.
- @daveweigel: Santorum won more counties! Just not the ones that more people lived in.
- @BenjySarlin: "If Mitt Romney runs, he's going to have a hard time defeating Rick Santorum first for sure." -Nobody before January 2012
- @sethmeyers21: About to sit down Samberg and tell him he's not going to play the President. This part of the job is never easy.
- @aseitzwald: Once and future Fox News contributor Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign today…
- @timothypmurphy: "Why I'm leaving the GOP primary."
- @rosiepgray: Santorum: "Amazing thing, that sweater vest."
- @indecision: Ron Paul's campaign announced he will stay in the race. Also, apparently, he is still in the race.
What We're Writing
- Jamelle Bouie: Like it or not, Romney owns the GOP war on women.
- Patrick Caldwell: Paul Ryan says some congressional Democrats actually like his budget. Names are not named.
What We're Reading
- Daily Intel: "It is unclear at this point whether God will even bother to offer anyone his apparently useless endorsement in the general election."
- 2012 looks like it will be like the last year where endorsing gay marriage is a contentious issue for the Democratic candidate.
- Hillary Clinton submits an entry to the Texts From Hillary Tumblr. The Internet is won.
- Gawker has a mole at Fox News. This could be fun.
- Margaret Talbot: Republicans, "Girls," and sexual freedom.
- Greg Sargent: How Republicans are losing the inequality argument.
- Mike Huckabee launches his new "not Rush" radio show by slamming the president.
Poll of the Day
The latest ABC/Washington Post poll shows Obama leading Romney among women by the largest margin yet: 19 points. Another key finding: 49 percent say Obama "better understands the economic problems people in this country are having," as opposed to 37 percent for Romney.
Tue, 2012-04-10 22:50
Women Hoodwinked By the Democrat Spin Machine
By Susan Stamper Brown
I'm a bit disappointed that some of my fellow women have bitten the bait thrown to them by Democratic operatives promoting a so-called "Republican war on women." In a way, Democrats have conducted a psychological campaign to fool many women into believing they are an eternal minority, destined to eat the scraps fed to them by a Democratic party more concerned about their votes than their contribution to society.
From start to finish, this con on women was created to distract us from seeing the truth: The Obama administration's economic policies have caused women to lose ground previously won by women under administrations from both parties. Overall, Democrat economic policies "favored men over women in all but one of the 16 major sectors of the economy." In five sectors, women lost jobs while men gained them. In other sectors, men gained jobs at a faster rate than women and lost them at a slower rate than women. State government was the only sector favoring women.
Undeterred, some women prefer to stick their head in the sand. Another recent Pew gender gap poll shows women now support Obama over the proven job creator Mitt Romney by 20 percent.
Tue, 2012-04-10 23:46
The Obama administration's economic policies have caused women to lose ground previously won by women under administrations from both parties. Overall, Democrat economic policies "favored men over women in all but one of the 16 major sectors of the economy." In five sectors, women lost jobs while men gained them. In other sectors, men gained jobs at a faster rate than women and lost them at a slower rate than women. State government was the only sector favoring women.
That's a pretty general comment. Want to provide some detail as to what sectors women "lost" and men "gained"? This is just more "hype" to distract from the real conversation.
Wed, 2012-04-11 00:01
Women Bear the Brunt of Public Sector Job Cuts
With females in the majority at jobs such as teaching and health care, cutbacks and limits on collective bargaining will fall disproportionately on them
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Original Knottie Weddings! (Throwback Thursday)
This #tbt (Throwback Thursday, duh!) we're getting nostalgic about The Knot's early years (did you know that The Knot was founded in 1996?)! Since then, we've featured thousands of real weddings, with new weddings every week!
The Hair
Original Knotties rocked the princess top knot, while today's Knotties often opt for a looser, more tousled look. What's for certain is that a chic and stylish updo will never go out of style.
The Cameras
Back then, the only way Knotties could compile their friends' and families' photo perspective was by developing film from disposable cameras. Today's Knotties have a lot of options when it comes to fun photo opportunities, like wedding hashtags, photo booths, and Instagram streams!
The Shoes
While shoe styles have changed quite a bit since the first Knotties were featured, what hasn't changed is our love for footwear (one of the most important wedding day accessories!) and the shoe shot.
The Exit
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These estimates hold good for modem atomic bomba exploded without warning; / WHAT ABOUT SUPER BOMBS? Do not be misled by loose talk of Imaginary, weapons a hundred - pi* a thousand times as powerful. All cause__deatructipn;-by exactly the Citizens Meet Bdard J The four general contracts for the new Bayvlew ave, school were awarded at a meeting of the Board of-Ed»cation~heId-Wednesday-n*ghtr Dec, 6. They are as follows: Gen-eral construction, Jonwar'Construc-tion Co., Inc., $895,044; heating and ventilating, Central Hdh^Ag & Plumbing, inc., $114,735; plumbing and' sanitary, Johy Boyd Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc., $57,496, and electric, Bank Electric Co., $80,520. To keep ^vithin the $1,300,000 ap-propriated for the structure by the residents of the school district It" was necessary to make certain de- ^-^"ris and temporarily eliminate some features originally planned for the school and yet provide 23 class-rooms' gymnasium, auditorium and cafeteria. These can,be restored la-ter after a Vote has been taken on a bond Issue to meet the additional past, how estimated at $200,000, but the members of the Board, felt that to reject the.blds_atithls. time, would_ result in adding greatly to the cost of ,lhe project and decided to take what appeared the best course of action. " THe situation was explained to't/ho members of the Citizens Commit" tee^at a meeting last night. • ' "In arriving at Uie amsMnt of the (Continued.on Page 2) Bay 'f'.n mea'ns, yet one would not breate:' nearly" as^ O 4!t#i^<tm%^ bombs y l.'Thls , . .., ,, Abombs "vaete' too much power near the center o the explosion. From the practloa point of view, it doesn't matter whether a building near the center of,the explosion is completely vapor-ized or whether it Js simply knocked into a pile of rubble. To be more specific, a modem atomic bomb can do heavy damage ALWAYS PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST AND - ' 1. ' Try to, get, shielded- '', ' • .,!* • . "• " ' ' . ' " ' • ' ' • . , ' . ' . . If you have time, get down. In a 'Basement or subway. Should you unexpectedly "be: caught out-kxf-doprs, geek .shelter alongside, a '• (building; or jump in any handy ditch or gutter. %. Drop Mate on ground or floor " To keep 'from, being tossed about and to lesseh' the chances of being struck -by. falling, and flying objects, flatten out at the/base of a f abahk. . •*3 .Bory. your face .&& yo?%r ;*&»»»•' .].-.- ,". y . . : ' • - . . v •=.• • ' '"'T^en you 'drop.^ flat; ! hide, -yovr eyes in the crook of your i .. "IQW't. .will protect] your face from flaah burns, prevent temporary . ' -, blindness and keep flying objects out of your eyes. ' . ; V . " " ' ' ' '' ' ' ". 4; '. .'"DoA'tj, rush '"on**Me. 'rlght . After an . air bwrat, ^w&t a few ! unlniites/ ' Uien ' go help\*/b fight f Iree. , . . A^ter other km\$* b^ lyurjta wait at least 1 hour to give llngeri»ig ra-' .-. ^ dlatla ' to - die . ' :5. 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So. first let's ook at a feiv things you can do to escape these two dangers. WHAT ABOUT BLAST? Even if you have only a second's warning, there is ,ond Important thing you can. do to lesson your chances of Injury by blast: . Fall flat on your face. More than half of all wounds are the. result of. -being bodily.. tossed about or being struck by falling and flying objects, ]^f you .have time jbo pick a good spot, there is less chance of your being struck by flying glass and other things. If you are inside a building, the beat 'place to (latten out Is close against the cellar wall. I-f you have-n< t*tlme to get down there, lie, down along an inside wall, or duck u nder a, bed or table. But don't pick a spot, righk opposite the. widows or you . are: . almost sure to be peltejl with shattered glass/ .. . , . . 'If caught but-of -doors, either drop down alongside the ;base of a good substantial building .^ avoid sMamsy, wooden' ones likely ,to be Mown o?e)r oa.top of you— or else jupip in .: any Aandy ditch , or gutter, /; When you fall flat to protect you?" up : gee whiat b /coming. ?)?@n .during ? $ ':#'! jA'f . . the Nassau Yacht-ClUb-of to . build a clubhouse: oh Bedell at. % has boen. done by desig-nating 500 feet on both the nor"Qi and 'south aides of Eaat, Bedell at., "wedbward from Mite \atprfroht as Bualneas A, while area h'asijwen placed of*che " \ -" * ;.•• , ,^ . , , ma.tterVwas,:,up^for a hearing, Julias Jawitz, a.:.;.''\.a hour*/ the flash. A-bbmb moments ^ of, bliqdnjsgg,. ; If ; you're f acmg^at; way* '?A) pr&ent;it, bury your * face In , your : aamaj and f or ;10 or 13 aepooda after; the dore, appealed for this/action. He aid the club members; wanted to ooate in Freeport'and pointed out »t the name chosen was The Nas* au yacht; OlUb of Freeport. 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Months ago County Commissioner Joanna Bryan asked the Clerk of Courts for travel records pertaining to commissioners, staff and several annual conferences.
When the records were provided for public viewing during the last regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners, at least two commissioners wondered about their accuracy.
Bryan made her request after presented with a board motion to approve travel by Commissioner Warren Yeager in advance, providing a blanket approval for travel to specific meetings.
At the time, before voting, Bryan asked the Clerk's office to provide travel numbers for county attendance for the Florida Association of Counties annual meeting, the annual convention of the National Association of Counties and the Florida Small Counties Coalition.
She wanted those records for the previous two fiscal years.
What the Clerk's office provided, budget and finance officer Sherry Herring said, was the travel of all county staff, commissioners' in-county travel and travel to those three conferences as well as a breakdown by district.
However, Herring said the system she was trying to pull information from was only as good as the information that was put in the system and that left her efforts to answer Bryan's questioned constrained.
The breakdown by district, she said, could be off due to the way the system is set up and how and who uses county credit cards to pay for the travel.
For example, travel for one commissioner might be paid by another commissioner or by staff and unless individual paper vouchers and receipts were pulled – meaning many more man-hours – some numbers were estimates.
She noted that during the time period involved, two newly-elected commissioners, Commissioners Ward McDaniel and Tan Smiley, might not have been issued their county credit cards and others may have paid for trips.
She also said she would receive vouchers with only the name of a hotel on it, but no indication the circumstances of the stay.
She had more than one travel voucher that "does not state what it is for."
Herring agreed with commissioners who suggested the BOCC and Clerk's office look at the way travel forms are coded and how information is entered into the Clerk's system.
McDaniel disputed the accuracy of the numbers and noted that taxpayer dollars were involved.
"This is people's money," McDaniel said.
In an email to Bryan, Herring noted the restrictions she was operating under.
"Given our resources I have attached the best summary I am able to provide in this time frame," Herring wrote on April 9, roughly two months after Bryan's request.
Herring also noted that the out-of-county travel numbers were solely for the conferences requested.
"As we discussed, I have broken down the commissioner's travel by the conferences you specifically requested," Herring continued. "Doing so for other departments and/or additional conferences would take additional time."
Herring said during the board meeting that while district numbers might skew depending on circumstances, "The overall totals are correct."
Overall, commissioners spent $31,846.77 in 2011 and $260.67 more in 2012 to travel to the FAC, NACO and SCC meetings, as well as what is noted as "other" travel which involves only Yeager ($2,133 in 2011; $5,133 the next year) and former Commissioner Bill Williams ($4,116 in 2011; $8,471 in 2012).
Commissioner Carmen McLemore did not attend any conferences, but the four other commissioners attended the FAC and NACO conferences and the Clerk's records indicate the county administrator and attorney also attended.
In addition, the five commissioners combined to spend $24,740 in 2011 and $23,413 in 2012 for in-county travel, with Williams and McLemore each claiming at least $6,000 in 2011 in-county travel alone.
In addition, staff travel, in-county or not, totaled $66,579 in 2011 - $26,670 is labeled "Other General Fund Travel" which is paid from the same fund from which commissioners are paid – and $75,937 in 2012.
In 2012, $33,556 of that travel again was labeled "Other General Fund Travel" and was paid from the same fund as commissioners.
That put the narrow travel totals provided by the Clerk, restricted to the three major conferences, in-county and staff travel, at $123,166 in 2011 and $131,458 in 2012.
"I think we need to look at how we can improve on keeping track of expenses," Bryan said. "I think we need to make some improvements."
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The BOCC also got its first look at a proposed process for crafting the agenda, which would require commissioners to place items on the agenda by a deadline or seek approval of a super-majority (four votes) at the beginning of the meeting to amend the agenda to include any additional items requiring a vote.
In seeking that amendment, the commissioner must explain the purpose for inclusion in the agenda.
The process would be similar for staff to bring an item to the BOCC after deadline, but the request for an amendment must come from a commissioner.
Any request from the public that arrived after the deadline would follow the same procedure.
The document was drafted by county attorney Jeremy Novak.
The goal is the increase public awareness and transparency regarding the issues and topics to be discussed, the policy stated.
Bryan asked that commissioners review the policy and come back with suggested revisions at the next BOCC meeting.


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If Jeets goes wicketless I'd put money on an Astle debut, especially if (har, more like when) we collapse in a heap again since they'll be keen on the extra batting, and likely hoping he can score a jammy 50 to go with his 2/100 off 20 overs.
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Going down leg.
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Twenty-four years running, the rap on Teach for America (TFA) is a sampled, re-sampled, burned-out record: The organization's five-week training program is too short to prepare its recruits to teach, especially in chronically under-served urban and rural districts; corps members only have to commit to teach for two years, which destabilizes schools, undermines the teaching profession, and undercuts teachers unions; and TFA, with the help of its 501(c)4 spin-off, Leadership for Educational Equity, is a leading force in the movement to close "failing" schools, expand charter schools, and tie teachers' job security to their students' standardized test scores. Critics burn TFA in internet-effigy across the universe of teacher listservs and labor-friendly blogs. Last July, it earned Onion fame: an op-ed entitled "My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids," followed by a student's take, "Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher?"
Despite the endless outcry, no one has ever staged a coordinated, national effort to overhaul, or put the brakes on, TFA—let alone anyone from within the TFA rank-and-file. On July 14, in a summit at the annual Free Minds/Free People education conference in Chicago, a group of alumni and corps members will be the first to do so.
The summit, billed as "Organizing Resistance Against Teach for America and its Role in Privatization," is being organized by a committee of scholars, parents, activists, and current corps members. Its mission is to challenge the organization's centrality in the corporate-backed, market-driven, testing-oriented movement in urban education.
"The goal is to help attendees identify the resources they have as activists and educators to advocate for real, just reform in their communities," says co-coordinator Beth Sondel, a 2004 TFA alum who is now a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin. Though the organizers don't have pre-set goals, possible outcomes range from a push for school districts not to contract with TFA to counter-recruitment of potential corps members away from the program.
TFA's resources are enormous. The organization's total assets for the 2011 fiscal year topped $350 million. That includes eight-figure support from the Broad, Walton, and Gates Foundations, leading bankrollers of campaigns to privatize school districts and ramp up standardized testing. The TFA orbit is also growing. It now has more than 10,000 corps members in 48 regions, as well as more than 32,000 alumni. Districts pay thousands in fees to TFA for each corps member in addition to their salaries—at the expense of the existing teacher workforce. Chicago, for example, is closing 48 schools and laying off 850 teachers and staff while welcoming 350 corps members. After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans cut 7,500 school staff, converted the majority of its schools to charters, and, between 2005 and 2010, saw its share of black teachers drop from 73 percent to 56 percent. Over the past five years, TFA expanded its Greater New Orleans corps from 85 teachers to 375.
For districts, charter schools and fast-tracked teachers are attractive alternatives to public schools staffed with unionized labor—especially under the well-financed push that TFA supports. As the organization grows, it cultivates leaders who align themselves with its pro-charter slant. Leadership for Educational Equity's alumni resources, as well as its biggest names, trend toward a particular politics. The 11,000 alumni who attended TFA's 20-year anniversary summit in 2011 got to hear from charter boosters ranging from Harlem Children's Zone CEO Geoffrey Canada and StudentsFirst CEO Michelle Rhee to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Colorado State Senator Michael Johnston. TFA alums are principals at half of KIPP charter schools—which two alumni founded—and the majority of Achievement First schools. Of the corps members TFA claims remain in education after their two-year stint (a hotly contested figure), administrators and extracurricular leaders are included.
The Chicago summit builds on the gamut of student, teacher, and community resistance to TFA-aligned reform, including recent, successful pushback against TFA itself. In May, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton vetoed $1.5 million in funding for the organization, citing TFA's already-loaded coffers. Three weeks later, the state's Board of Teaching voted to deny TFA a group-based licensing variance, an extra hurdle for corps members to be allowed to teach. In April, prominent alumni played a key role in getting the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing to tighten the training requirements for teachers of English language learners—which will directly impact corps members.
Within TFA, resistance is an uphill battle. The optimism that singular change agents can overcome poverty—successful teaching "requires all the same approaches that transformational leadership in any setting requires" and "there is nothing elusive about it," as TFA founder and CEO Wendy Kopp puts it—is a powerful brand that crowds out dissent. Those who question this ideology are less likely to identify as TFA alums—and, in turn, less likely to invest in speaking out against TFA. Those who do speak out face narrower access to leadership pipelines within TFA's political empire.
"One of the misperceptions of TFA is that accomplished alumni are successful because they're so persistent, they're so relentless," says Janelle Scott, a 1991 corps member who studies reform politics as a professor at Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. "What's talked about less in public discourse is how deep alumni networks are that are largely invisible. Many alumni don't feel that they a have a voice."
Organized resistance among TFA teachers is limited to localized spaces like New Orleans' New Teachers' Roundtable, whose coordinators are helping organize the Chicago summit. The local roundtable was formed by a group of TFA teachers who felt that the organization didn't prepare them for students dealing with trauma or connect them with teachers fighting for racial justice before the storm. "That really made a lot of us pretty incompetent," says Derek Roguski, a 2008 corps member and summit organizer. "Without that training, we thought the best thing was to create conversations in our community, and between our community and the people who we work with in New Orleans." The roundtable hosts "story circles," modeled after the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of the 1960s, where white teachers and teachers of color share stories about the issues that they experience and witness.
The priority that TFA assigns to individual responsibility butts heads with this kind of teacher-community solidarity. Under the TFA model, "You're not thinking collaboratively about what are we doing in these communities," says Terrenda White, a 2002 corps member who interviews alumni as part of her PhD research at Columbia's Teachers College. White recalls handing in her resignation letter the same week that she received her teaching credential. "I just felt like I had severed this sense of continuity," she says. "Notions of community just did not fit with the way in which we were churned in and out."
The summit is intended to be a kind of scaled-up roundtable with a political edge. The organizers emphasize that their purpose is not simply to call out TFA for inadequately training teachers—but to form a space for pushing back on the privatization movement that TFA anchors.
Within the boundaries of its five-week training model, TFA admits to imperfections in connecting teachers with their host communities. "Teach For America is still evolving in our approach to these issues," says Heather Harding, a 1992 corps member who is now TFA's senior vice president for community partnerships, special initiatives, research, and engagement. "TFA hasn't always been willing to grapple with critical race issues but I have witnessed a significant shift in our actions over the last three years." Harding points to a program on race and identity that the group piloted in last year's Charlotte summer training that is being implemented nationwide this year.
The summit, she adds, is "an important step in having alumni 'talk back' to TFA leadership." In a statement to the Prospect, TFA says that it won't be sending any senior staff to the summit, as it feels that an "official presence could potentially inhibit…open, honest communication." Still, Harding says, "I hope that they produce a paper or presentation that makes constructive suggestions to the organization so we can be held accountable to those dissenting voices in our community. I believe in the big tent approach and I know many of my colleagues do, too."
TFA, like its 501(c)4 spin-off, persistently defends its political neutrality. Responding to an open letter this spring from prominent TFA alum and critic Gary Rubinstein, Kopp wrote, "Active and vocal alumni like you are proof that there's no shortage of diverse opinion within the Teach For America community. But you're right that we haven't done enough to highlight ideological diversity and reach out to alumni who feel that their opinions aren't welcome."
Highlighting diversity, in and of itself, is small beans in a world ruled by elite networks and high finance. For TFA to put its money where its mouth is, it would have to reroute its financial and political connections, which are entrenched in a particular world of reform.
Though summit organizers say they'll be happy if TFA engages with them, they stress that their purpose is to provide an autonomous space for elevating dissenting voices. "We really are thinking of this as a countermovement," says co-coordinator Kerry Kretchmar, a 2006 TFA alum who now teaches education at Carroll College. "We hope, out of bringing these networks together, that we're taking the first step."
Tue, 2013-07-09 17:44
And, who are huge donors to TfA in recent years, the Walton Family Foundation, who, despite having virtually no background in education, are leading a national push for more school "choice" (read: privitization). Meanwhile, the one thing shown to consistently raise educational achievement - better economic conditions for families - is the one thing Walmart and the Waltons are most undermining. Walmartization of our schools, no thanks. TfA should say no thanks to Walmart money.
Wed, 2013-07-10 00:30
Oakland, California is a testing ground for failed national education policies. The district is a magnet for TSA experimentation. At McClymonds, a 95% African American High School, 6 teachers left mid-year leaving subs to finish their classes. Good local people want to be teachers here, but wages are the lowest in the county. This opens the door to a flood of TFA folks coming here for their inner city experience. TFA's come and go creating greater instability for our poor kids. Oakland closes schools in African American neighborhoods and gives the property to Charters which comprise 42% of our district. The union is on its knees and last election billionaire PAC donations funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into an organization called Greater Oakland Schools or GO to sweep the election. With the reformers and privatizers in control they are now selling off our property. The district's public image is that it has a "strategic plan" it is implementing and calls itself the "most improved district" in California. I could go on and on....
Wed, 2013-07-10 08:03
TFA is necessary in that it started to bring a few teachers into teaching who had real, long-term, and serious commitment to intellectual rigor. These were students who had long dedicated themselves to the life of the mind by reading from an early age, reading vigorously in middle and high school, and consequently had respectable SAT and ACT scores. These students went on to highly-selective universities. When they sit for GRE exams they do well.
Unfortunately this is not the case for the folks who have gone into teaching (and ultimately administrators in education) for the past 40 years. The shamefully low GRE scores (so low the ed schools try to avoid publishing them) of the MEd students have put a cadre of ignorami into the public schools which has produced the current state of low quality schools.
While TFA takes students from highly-selective universities which is essential (most current teachers in public schools went to second rate universities) TFA should have never used only the "5-week" training, but rather done as I did (independently) gone through a year and a half of Ed school coursework (all of it rubbish in terms of lack of rigor and intellectual integrity--but nonetheless required for licensing (and not an "alternative licensing path.)) It is even possible to do this after a successful career (no need for phony alternative licensing.) In essence, a person could create their own TFA. What TFA does provide is support for intelligent people who want to go into teaching which is essential first step and ultimate bulwark against the hugely low-IQ force of Education administrators which exists in the field.
It will be a long and difficult battle against the huge amounts of low-IQ administrators and teachers who have dominated the field of teaching for the past 40 years and TFA could support folks who really care about intellectual discipline and academic quality. Whether they can change the mess these rubbish Ed schools have created is, sadly, in doubt.
Wed, 2013-07-10 14:41
To your first point: people that have a "real, long-term, and serious commitment to intellectual rigor" already have many options to get into teaching. In my current state, anyone with a college degree can take an exam and get a preliminary license. Or, you can take the exam and major in education at some point for an initial license. Teach For America doesn't need to exist to get good people into education.
To your second point: be careful insulting teachers as a monolithic group. I very well on the GREs. My percentile doesn't affect my career, though, because the #1 priority of teachers and schools is classroom management, then teaching/presentation skills (knowledge of best practice techniques), then subject knowledge. If you can't manage a class, it doesn't matter that you were in the 90th percentile on the GRE; nobody will be learning anything in your room.
Saying that most teachers went to "second-rate" universities is again an insult to teachers and a great deal of universities in our nation. The department of education requires a fairly specific curriculum for education students, and you could get a very similar curriculum at any university education program. In fact, at my "higher-end" university, I was exposed to more theory than applicable practice tips, so you could argue that my sister was a better-trained teacher at her state school that focused more on practice.
If you only went through a year and a half of ed school, it seems you missed the most important part: student teaching. That is where all that theory you learned in class is applied. They make you describe how you applied it. You are eased into teaching, and given support if you struggle. Any teacher training program that does not include student teaching (ahem, TFA) is doing their trainees a serious disservice.
On to the next point: Why do we need so many high-IQ people around for only two years (if they make it that far)? We need serious, long-term teachers. Teach For America takes spots that would otherwise go to people who want to stick around for the long haul. They usually live in the area, and they've been studying education for years. Why should they lose out on a job for a person with virtually no training, but boasting the impressive "High IQ" credentials (if you'd studied in ed school, you'd know how thoroughly IQ has been discredited as any sort of meaningful measurement).
Finally, our schools are not doing that badly. Our rich kids do better on PISA exams than most of the world's rich kids. Our poor kids do better than most of the world's poor kids. We have a very unique, economically and socially diverse population, and we educate all of them, not just a select few. Very few other countries can make both of those claims. Could we all improve? Absolutely. Could certain districts improve more than others? Yes. Does pointing fingers at teachers and calling them dumb do anything to help the situation? Nope.
Wed, 2013-07-10 22:41
You speak of student teaching as though TFA teachers don't receive this benefit. Unlike traditionally trained teachers they receive constant feedback and review from the organization during the school yea. They attend professional development monthly, if not more.. Furthermore, don't assume every TFA teacher isn't in it for the long haul. Some people use it as a route to enter education. While some states may allow "just a test" many do not and TFA allows this opportunity. Do they learn educational theory before enter the classroom? Some. But they learn a lot of it while in the classroom and can immediately implement it while earning their masters in education. They aren't taking jobs "away from teachers". They are teaching in schools that many teachers avoid and do not have enough teachers applying. The high turn over rate has nothing to do with background - I've seen many traditionally trained teachers quit mid-year in Urban schools and choose to not return at the end if a school year.
The fact that we turn this into a debate of TFA VS. traditional is ridiculous. At the end of the day it is about the students. It is about educating them, no matter who does it. If the teachers aren't co-existing within the school, the students aren't learning appropriately. So stop this debate over the petty details, get in the classroom and educate kids. And if you haven't been through TFA, stop tearing it down. Many people enter TFA with advanced degrees and training, including educational and professional experience in their subject area and some enter with their teaching certificates in hand. All of the stereotypes you believe about the organization are not true - it isn't a cookie cutter organization - stop treating it like it is.
Fri, 2013-07-12 11:35
So what you are saying is TFA uses the kids from the first year as practice? Student teachers, in my experience as a student were pretty godawful until the middle/end of the school year...they were earnest enough but didn't have the experience, and that is with an experienced teacher to help them. A "seminar" does you no help for things that come up minute by minute.
Sat, 2013-07-13 11:56
So, what you're saying is that TFA teachers are essentially student teaching their entire first school year. Without a lead teacher supporting them, this is a terrible idea- they might get help and support their first year (though my state has a mentor program that sounds similar for all teachers), they are on their own in the classroom. When I student taught, I had some real stinkers as lessons, but it was OK because the rest of the day was taught by the real teacher, and there wasn't any real learning loss. I was allowed to get my feet wet and observe classroom management before jumping in and trying it on my own. You know that turning things around after a rocky start can be incredibly difficult- TFA makes it that much more likely that the first year of teaching will be challenging for the teacher and less worthwhile for the students.
They actually ARE taking jobs away from teachers. There are many schools that will not even interview a more experienced teacher. Even the article discusses the fact that there are qualified applicants for the jobs that are filled by TFA.
The fact is that most TFA teachers aren't in it for the long haul. The retention rate after the first two years is far worse than those who go through traditional routes to teaching. It is in no way presented as a path to becoming a teacher- it's presented as a chance to maybe help out a poor area, but mostly as a learning experience for the TFA teacher, like the Peace Corps. The focus of TFA is not on the students. On that note, I doubt many who entered TFA
I'm not tearing down other teachers at my school. And if we want to talk about tearing teachers down, let's take a look at the comment above my original (and TFA's rhetoric) that demeans current teachers as "the bottom of the barrel," and their TFA as "the best and the brightest." They might be the best and the brightest at something, but they aren't any better than an educator with experience at teaching.
Sun, 2013-07-14 12:58
But some are in it "for the long haul". There are amazing principles and educators who have been in the system for years that originated in TFA in my city. I stand by my point, professing a hatred towards TFA and assuming everyone who enters is the same does not help the children or the education systems. There are multiple alternative teaching programs in the country that operate similar to TFA, yet they are not being attacked.
Wed, 2013-07-10 20:58
Excellent! I could not agree more. We need top students going into teaching . Everyone knows that education schools have long recruited from the bottom of the barrel (not always, but often). All students benefit from teachers who are smart, well read, and intellectually curious. There are many reasons to question some of the recent "reforms" to education, but Teach for America is not one of them. I've seen these young teachers in action in the schools, and they are invariably the most committed and capable people on staff. Our schools top to bottom are full of incompetent and just plain dumb administrators and more than a few ill-informed and just plain strange teachers. Why would anyone object to bringing our nation's best and brightest into schools where they are most needed. The biggest challenge these schools face is finding teachers to fill the open vacancies!
Wed, 2013-07-10 22:33
Why would anyone object to bringing "our nation's best and brightest" into schools where they are most needed? Well, first of all, they aren't needed. In California, about 19,500 teachers were laidoff last year and there have been huge layoffs for four years now! My brother-in-law received a pink slip a couple of years ago- ironically, it was the day after he received his teacher of the year award! Meanwhile, you would like his school district to hire someone with no teaching experience, someone who is only committed to teaching for two years before going on to a career in finance, law, and business? Who could object to that??? "But the most objectionable aspect of Teach for America—other than its contempt for lifetime educators—is its willingness to create another pathway to wealth and power for those already privileged in the rapidly expanding educational-industrial complex, which already offers numerous careers for the ambitious and well-connected." -Mark Naison, "Why Teach for America Is Not Welcome in My Classroom".
Thu, 2013-07-11 00:02
Sun, 2013-07-14 15:58
The presence of TFA is very noticeable in New Orleans. One only has to think for a moment to question why? Where are our many experienced veteran Teachers who have lived and worked in New Orleans over the years. Gone. They no longer have jobs, due to the huge influx of young TFA Teachers who have been recruited by "school reform" advocates and profiteers. And still, the failure rate of their charter schools, run by BROAD, KIPP and New Leaders For New Schools, with TFA Teachers in most of our classrooms, is 79%! Some of our Veteran and now displaced New Orleans Teachers and some of our parents worked hard to plan and present at this Conference. Why are their names and positions not listed in this article? Who profits? Again, our veteran New Orleans Teachers and our New Orleans parents are rushed over and out, in order to make room for a new style of Carpetbaggers!! The children are the losers.
Wed, 2013-07-10 22:51
Mon, 2013-07-22 15:20
What an arrogantly misinformed response this is. The truth is that the vast majority of TFA "teachers" are gone within the first two years - just long enough to have their student debt eliminated - the real reason they were there. Nearly all of the true talent in teaching has come from those individuals you dismiss as being less than those who are able to afford an Ivy league education. I suppose that was your slam against state colleges - again, unfounded and unsubstantiated misinformation. The fact is that TFA does not have a track record worth bragging about and neither do you.
Wed, 2013-07-10 11:48
Although I suspect the dissenting TFA alum in this article follow the national trend of leaving teaching after 5 or fewer years, I'm also annoyed that the dissenting alum, except for Rubenstein, aren't still in the classroom. They too have chosen educational "leadership" rather than leading by example and continuing to work directly with students. I support the counter-movement but I wish the sad equivalence of excellence and leadership didn't exist. We need our best in our classrooms
Wed, 2013-07-10 11:50
Although I suspect the dissenting TFA alum in this article follow the national trend of leaving teaching after 5 or fewer years, I'm also annoyed that the dissenting alum, except for Rubinstein, aren't still in the classroom. They too have chosen educational "leadership" rather than leading by example and continuing to work directly with students. I support the counter-movement but I wish the sad equivalence of excellence and leadership didn't exist. We need our best in our classrooms
Wed, 2013-07-10 17:52
Rachel Jeantel should become the poster child for the destruction wrought by teacher's unions in America's schools.
She is a 19 year-old senior at Norland High School in Miami, Florida and epitomizes the type of education delivered by teacher's unions. Only 23% of Norland's students score above basic on reading while 38% score below basic. Only 13% at Norland score above basic on math while 50% score below basic.
Why don't these members of the teacher's union learn to TEACH this summer???!!!
Thu, 2013-07-11 22:51
It is outrageous that you should name this student and slander her. You know nothing about her except what you surmised from her testimony in one of the most difficult situations she will ever have to face. You conflate complex issues and make gross generalizations about this young woman, her fellow students, many of whom are not native English speakers, and about their teachers. For what should we make you the poster child? Ignorance? Condescension? Misuse of statistics? Bad form.
Fri, 2013-07-19 00:34
Let me quote from the book of Job, "You speak like one of the foolish women (men). You are so bitter against a profession, about which you know nothing. You go online and grab some data, accurate or not, and use it to slander the most influential people in the lives of every man, woman, boy and girl. You wouldn't even last for an hour in one of our urban schools, rife with students with misdiagnosed or undiagnosed social, mental, intellectual and psychological disorders and many of them from homes with socio-economic problems. These are the schools that get the least amount of money per student, have the most deplorable working conditions, usually are overcrowded... Need I go on?
Based on your negative rant and data -spewing, I can only assume that you either belong to a group that owns charter schools, and are lining your pockets with funds that should be used to upgrade urban education or you are one of those that believe in keeping the poor in "their place" by depriving them of quality education under the guise of providing a better experience for them through half-baked institutions such as charter schools and fly-by-night teacher preparation programs such as Teach for America. Our children who are educated in charter schools, which have better facilities, resources, technology...DO NOT fare better than those who can't do any better than to attend the out-dated, run-down, ceiling-falling-down, no-airconditions-or ceiling -fans, hot-in-the- spring and summer, cold-in-the-fall-and-winter, under-staffed, over-crowded, look-like-prisons, sorry-excuses-for-institutions of learning. Unfortunately many teachers and students in urban school districts encounter these and a myriad of other problems on a daily basis, yet they succeed. I hate to even waste my time responding to an elitist, racist, ethnically-insensitive "princess" as you, with my computer malfunctioning, but someone has to tell it like it is. Leave good, working people alone and do something constructive.
Wed, 2013-07-10 21:52
While the overall PISA rankings ignore socio-economic differences in the tested schools, when you look at the data based on the rate of free and reduced lunch, a direct relationship is established between poverty and low scores. The truth is, unionized public school teachers are generally better qualified than non-union private school teachers. 52% of public school teachers hold masters degrees compared to 38% of private school teachers. A Gates-financed study released last year suggests the average teacher may be working an eleven-hour day. I find myself working at least nine, (I teach in the central part of Los Angeles which has high rates of poverty and crime). "Students in poverty require intensive supports to break past a condition that formal schooling alone cannot overcome," Tirozzi, National Assn. of Secondary School Principals. Of course the billionaires, hedge fund managers, and others who believe in market reforms ignore the obvious truth because it confutes their capitalist ideology.
Wed, 2013-07-10 22:39
As a 2009 South Louisiana alumnus, I'm right in line to criticize TFA, but I tire of reading about alumni "summiting" to complain without proposing alternatives.
"...the organizers don't have pre-set goals." In other words, this is alumni taking the opportunity to keep acting self-important, use the Teach for America brand to get attention, and market themselves as contrarian without proposing any thoughtful avenues of change. The first two are what most TFA alumni do anyways.
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Thu, 2013-07-11 20:27
Fri, 2013-07-12 11:22
These comments about unionized teachers being ineffective, I love that the exemplar schools used are always THE WORST IN THE DISTRICT. The fact is that teachers are only partly in control of test scores AT BEST...there is the old saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make em drink". Good teaching can help inspire, but it needs to be combined with active parents and support/funding from the community.
Fri, 2013-07-12 15:10
Throwing the teachers' unions into it is the RWNJ siren song. It's all the fault of the unions! Nevermind the thousand other factors, let's just blame it on unions.
Forget the cut in funding, the dilapidated buildings (some still with air conditioning), the oversized class rooms where many teachers spend their own money on supplies, the lack of technology in the lower income parts of cities and towns, etc. And that doesn't even touch on the health, well-being and attitude of the kids.
Teachers fight an uphill battle most days and all they get is derision from the right. No problem paying an athlete or CEO millions of dollars - but a teacher trying to keep their financial head above water is an outrage!
Fri, 2013-07-12 13:36
A counter-movement that aims at reducing TFA's support of school privatization is something that I would support sort of. But the way the write of this article describes this "movement," it seems about the participants and loosely about "communities," but there are no actual examples of how and why students will benefit from this fight. This seems like an ideological, labor vs. big money fight that seems to forget the students for which this public education systems is supposed to serve. Also, just like every ed reform article I read from any writer, politician or anyone that is not a veteran teacher SERIOUSLY oversimplifies the problems and solutions of education and divorces all reforms (TFA included) from history of public education in this country. This is really a disservice to the politicians and wonks who read this publication and the TFA corps members and alums who say they want to "better" TFA, who may or may not be wrecking the "system," which is already by the way, broken. The situation of public education varies widely in this country by state, district and administration. Even in the poorest districts, I've seen awesome veteran teachers who came through traditional education systems, and I've seen awesome teachers who came through TFA. Likewise, most (this is almost completely ignored by the writer), leave the profession within 5 years, in these poor districts. This problem REMAINS and is endemic and not caused by TFA. The job is ridiculously demanding; the systems in place are onerous, not streamlined and diluted by politicians and poor oversight. But again, that was what I saw in the Philly school district, WHEN I WAS THERE. To think that the situation is the same in Philadelphia and rural Texas is to misunderstand the U.S. school system. Stop being so self-righteous as to think that you, and only you, are fighting the good fight. Humility is also something I see lacking in not only this article, but in Teach For America as well.
At least AT LEAST, Teach For America has continuously sought to grow and change, respond to its alumni and corps members needs by doing constant and system-wide surveys and engagement on a regular, streamlined basis. I know there are people with professional motivations in the organizations, but as nonprofits and governments go, TFA was one of the most responsive to constructive criticism I have every seen. It's one thing to say, HEY, TFA, please don't accept the biggest gifts that will allow you to do the work you want to do, and another to say, your training system is inadequately preparing teachers, we need to expand it to be a full-fledged program, which by the way costs a lot of money and work to implement.
Fri, 2013-07-12 15:13
Tue, 2013-07-16 14:18
More of the South winning the Civil War backed by billionaires. Pounding on public schools and teachers' unions since Reagan, they want a privatized system begun when the south was ordered to integrate and instead formed Christian schools. They do not accept special ed students or any students they do not like. They used massive media to attack public education as if it is failing when they have no ability to compete educationally. It is a system of lies, but the US is supine in protecting what they had before the red states began dismantling the system and all the states underfunded much of the public system. Perhaps a student in one of their schools has more social exposure than their home-schooled generation of radicals, but their educational structure has been proven to be led by those with no experience in the rigors of teaching beyond their ideology.
Mon, 2013-07-22 19:00
Thu, 2013-07-25 19:53
Do we have a "FFA" or "CTA". Fly for America or Cardiology for America. One only needs do consider this do know that TFA is wrong and even stupid. Give me a well meaning eager individual with a History degree from a large Midwestern university who would really like to try cardiology at some second rate hospital for two years. Or take over the controls of some Boeing 747 because there is a shortage of qualified pilots. We should no more more allow someone to conduct surgery after a five week training program than take over a classroom!
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The thought of tigers becoming extinct is simply unbearable. Man has always fought for territories, now we must come together and fight for the tigers. We have the power to influence the way the products we consume are made. We have the power to protect the forests and the tigers. Please use this power now, join me and sign the Tiger Manifesto!MARION COTILLARD, Actress, France
I spent three months shooting the movie "Java Heat" in Indonesia, and absolutely fell in love with the people, the culture and their wildlife. Indonesia's Sumatran tigers could disappear if we don't stop forest destruction for palm oil. Their forest home is the only place tigers, elephants and orangutans live side by side. I don't want the last forests in Indonesia to disappear, not when there are better ways to develop Indonesia's vast natural resources. Let's show the world that we are fearless for forests and join the movement to protect paradise in Indonesia.KELLAN LUTZ, Actor US
Photo credit @Robbiefimmano
The thought of anything on this beautiful earth of ours being driven to extinction by our selfish consumption is devastating to me and I think we as fellow animals need to do everything in our power to stop it from happening.GILLIAN ANDERSON, Actress US
Photo credit Stephen Busken
Without healthy, thriving forests, our planet cannot sustain life. With as few as 400 Sumatran tigers in Indonesia, it's clear to me that our forests are not in the best of health. That's why I believe we need to take action now. Join me and sign the Tiger Manifesto – let's Protect Paradise.PAUL WESLEY, Actor US
Indonesia's forests are precious to all of us: they are the earth's lungs, people's homes, and habitat to countless animals including the endangered Sumatran tiger. But if we don't stop forest destruction all of this will disappear. We don't have to choose growth at all costs; that's why I'm adding my voice to Greenpeace's Tiger Manifesto. Join me and Greenpeace's global movement to protect paradise now.KRISTIN BAUER VAN STRATEN, Actress US
Photo credit Manfred Bauman
Imagine if you had to tell your children and grandchildren that you knew that the majestic Sumatran Tiger was highly endangered and you watched on with regret, but did nothing as it became extinct... We still have an opportunity, let's all join the Tiger Manifesto.ISABEL LUCAS, Actress Australia
Photo credit Alice Foulcher
There are as few as 400 Sumatran tigers left. We must all do what we can to protect their home. Please join me and Greenpeace's global movement to protect paradise.
NIKKI REED, Actress US
Photo credit 7 for all Mankind
I'm taking a last stand with Greenpeace to protect some of the most precious forests on earth, and home to countless animals including the Sumatran tiger. Palm oil can be grown without forest destruction. Change is possible; that's why I'm adding my voice to the Tiger Manifesto, join me!AMY SMART, Actress US
Photo credit Jeff Vespa
When I heard that the endangered Sumatran Tiger could lose its last home to forest destruction, I knew I wanted to help. I hope you'll join me in pushing for more tiger and forest friendly products, and add your name along mine to Protect paradise. Thank you!OLIVIA MUNN, Actress US
Photo credit Aleksandar Tomovic


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Suite Funky Zebra Applique Duvet Cover + Sham
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A bold border of triple stripes makes a great frame for your favorite initial, appliquéd and embroidered in a chic zebra print on soft organic cotton.
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Kettle Foods 'the Kettle way' by 101
Kettle Foods has released a print and digital campaign, by 101, to support its new range of tortilla chips.
The agency commissioned a traditional signwriter, Mick Pollard, to hand-paint each of the print executions in the campaign.
There is also a short film about him and his work on the brand's Facebook and YouTube channels. The work, which breaks this week, was created by Tim Donald and Misha Newby. The photographer was Robbie Maynard.