Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America

Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America
by Molly Ness

Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America
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Author: Molly Ness
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-26
ISBN: 0415945909
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

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Book Review: The Front Lines of...What War Did You Say?
Summary: 3 Stars

Teachers today are always described as being on the front lines. But one might ask, of which war? I taught with Teach For America recruits. There were several things they had in common, although no doubt they were as individuals as different as the rest of us. Still their similarities suggest that they were the products of training and indoctrination. First, they had that breezy quality of visitors not employees. It was a lark for them, teaching, not a way to make a living. It was a hobby. They were short-term help, in other words, not education workers, like the rest of us. They acted like Christmas wrapping-paper crew members, working in the department store for a week or so. No problems penetrated, nothing involved them. You'd never see them at an evening staff meeting; they were out of there at 3:00, baby. Secondly, they snubbed the staff teachers but brown-nosed the administrators. They saw the teachers as working-class (rightfully) and the administrators as middle-class, that is, people like them. They were trained to look down at the teachers, because they had been trained to see us as the obstacles to reform and change and liberation and emancipation. We taught Cinderella, but they "deconstructed" Cinderella. We were regarded as purveyors of oppression; they, of enlightenment. They were management; we, just teachers, the lowest form of scum in our society. The message they received at Teach for American headquarters was this: "Teaching is a fun hobby, not a career, except for the losers you'll be meeting at your assignment. Ignore them, kiss up to the Principal, get a good recommendation, and soon you'll be raking in the bucks at your chosen profession." One thing I came away feeling was that at least on this point the alumni were well-informed.
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Summary of Lessons to Learn: Voices from the Front Lines of Teach for America

This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teaching in the nation's most troubled public schools. These inexperienced teachers come to class armed with little more than their idealism and the conviction that every student, regardless of race or background, deserves an excellent education. They take the toughest jobs at the toughest schools in the toughest districts, and they face the raw realities of America's public education system: dilapidated schools, too few books, and overcrowded classrooms.
Written in the tradition of Studs Terkel, Lessons to Learn showcases the insights of a wide range of individuals with real life expertise, combining interviews and essays from TFA corps members and alumni as well as principals, superintendents, parents, and noted education experts. Current and former TFA members reflect on their teaching sucesses and failures, the life lessons they gathered along the way, and their insights about the challenges facing out nation's public schools. Education professionals and other experts help establish the broader context of the fight for meaningful public education reform.
Lessons to Learn is essential reading for teaching, parents, policy makers, and anyone who cares about the fate of this nation's struggling public education system.

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