Title: Is Teach For America Failing? : NPR
Headings: Is Teach For America Failing?
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Content: Now, there are some great Teach for America alumni that became leaders. They taught for a lot of years, and they became principals and things like that. But I'm talking about a certain, small class of them. They taught for maybe two or three years, and then they were given the reigns to take over a district - and they have not done a very good job. A prime example is Washington, D.C., where Teach for America alumni are sort of at all levels, including the very top, and they haven't succeeded there. They have a policy of shutting down schools, firing teachers, given bonuses based on what I consider to be inaccurate metrics. And they've sort of bought into the whole corporate reform movement. MARTIN: I'm talking with Gary Rubinstein. He is an alumnus of the Teach for America program.