By Lauren Ingeno
If a university enrolls and charges students to study in degree programs to become teachers or learn about education, is it odd for the same institution to partner with an organization that helps people avoid just that kind of education? That’s the question being posed by graduate students from the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development.
In a scathing statement, grad students assailed Teach for America, saying that a potential partnership between the teacher trainee program and the university “offers unearned legitimacy to a significantly flawed and powerful force in education.” While Teach for America is popular with many policy-makers, many education schools have long doubted its rigor and have noted that most of its participants work only for a short time in public education.
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