Teach For America: School Districts Have the Power to Change
Teach For America (TFA) has faced criticism in recent years. Brewer and Greene recommend collaboration with TFA for school districts.
David Greene is a former 38-year Social Studies teacher, mentor, and coach. After teaching, he supervised new teachers while working for Fordham University. Now he is a partner in the BIGS Project, a program to help high school and college students learn the life skills necessary to choose, get, and do a great job.
He is the author of Doing the Right Thing: A Teacher Speaks and former Treasurer of Save Our Schools. His blogs have appeared in Diane Ravitch’s website, Education Weekly, US News and World Report and the Washington Post. He wrote the most responded-to Sunday Dialogue letter in the New York Times entitled, “A Talent for Teaching.” He has also appeared on a TV documentary: The growing movement against Teach for America. You can visit David Greene’s blog on Wordpress or follow him on Twitter
Teach For America (TFA) has faced criticism in recent years. Brewer and Greene recommend collaboration with TFA for school districts.
When the the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was passed, until 1979 when it was amended, (creating the U.S. Department of Education)
Author and educator David Greene talks about the state of education in the U.S. Greene discusses several topics, including standardized testing, Common Core, the teaching profession and more. Greene is a program consultant for WISE Services, a former teacher and coach for 38 years, the author of “Doing the Right Thing: A Teacher Speaks” and treasurer of the organization “Save Our Schools.”
David Greene shares that former NY Governor Cuomo’s education policies fly in the face of what experts cite as elements for successful schools.
Nancie Atwell, winner of the Varkey Foundation’s first Global Teacher Prize, recently spoke to CNN’s “New Day” show about receiving a $1 million award that she subsequently handed over to her school, the school she founded, the Center For Teaching and Learning. I admire Ms. Atwell and all her work. I am sure she is a great teacher, but I have a problem with any teacher, even me, being called the best Global Teacher and winning an award of $1,000,000.