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Teach for America Faces Big Growth and Big Questions
In Miami’s distressed north district, eager but inexperienced Teach for America instructors pursue reading and math gains in Holmes Elementary as a $50 million federal grant aims to have corps members constitute a quarter of new teachers in 60 high-need districts by 2015. The program, expanding internationally, garners praise for talent influx yet draws critics who warn of high turnover and uneven outcomes.
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Miami
Teach For America
Julian Davenport
Holmes Elementary
Teach For America Corps
Tony Wagner
Harvard Graduate School of Education
TFA Corps
Kati Haycock
The
Education Trust
TFA
Wendy Kopp
Teach For
America
Princeton
Fortune 500
Kopp
Associated Press
Tim Knowles
Urban Education Institute
University of Chicago
New York City
Harvard
Texas
North Carolina
Mahalyn Brooks