Julian Vasquez Heilig, recently appointed Dean of the School of Education at the University of Kentucky, has been creating a series of podcasts about education “reform,” with particular attention to Teach for America.
Please listen to this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7UCgkWzYqI&t=1115s
Truth For America is a podcast about Teach For America (TFA) that provides voice to educators, parents, students, and other key stakeholders. Truth For America is co-hosted by Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig and Dr. T. Jameson Brewer. Episode 21 features two TFA corps members that were assigned to early childhood education. We discuss their perspectives on the lack of relevance of the training that they received at TFA Summer Institute and the Relay Graduate School. They also discuss their departure from Teach For America, the required usage of their Americorps stipends for graduate school and other many other issues. Dr. Barb Veltri guest hosts this episode. Truth For America is sponsored by the Network for Public Education Action.
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This podcast shows how TFA can manipulate data. Teachers self report data, and the data are recorded. Then, TFA brags about the results. It is not surprising that the so-called results are corrupt just like the organization it represents. TFA is a self promotion organization based on a scam.
A TFA’er, fast tracked to management, co-founded a Catholic school chain. After her time at the Neo-liberal Harvard Kennedy school of government, she directed Philanthropy Roundtable’s K-12 programs which I presume is where she learned the goal of charter schools is “…brands on a large scale”. Philanthropy Roundtable’s’s online magazine posted an interview with the head of Gates-funded New Schools Venture Fund, where readers learned the Gates’ goal. The TFAer’s Catholic school chain was co-founded with a “KIPP pioneer”.
Philanthropy Roundtable is where Frederick Hess and a manager of a Gates funded ed organization explained to wealthy people that they could takeover university ed schools with money instead of using the ed reformers’ preferred weapon- “…blowing up the ed schools”.
big money now looking for TFA mouthpieces: a sad, sad use of enthusiastic energy
For some of those attracted to TFA, I doubt the role of mouthpiece for wealthy people is a hard sell.