Case Study: Accordin Teach For America

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From money to loan forgiveness to early retirement benefits these and a lot of other incentives are being used to entice teaching hopefuls, current teachers and those

The article starts out by mentioning that throughout the city of New Orleans you will find that Teach for America alumni hold high job positions in Louisianan’s educational system. Examples of a few of these positions include the superintendent of the Recovery District and a state school board members. It goes on to explain that the people of New Orleans are asking controversial questions about Teach for America that the organization has been dealing with since it was founded. Some of these questions are: do its recruits continue working as teachers after their two year commitment ends? Are their members prepared enough to handle inner city children and the unique challenges they face? And what makes Teach for America recruits with no educational training or experience, good enough for the

The Florida Department of Education offers a wide variety of career and technical programs and courses to prepare students for occupations. These programs are organized into 17 different career clusters and are intended for middle school, high school, district technical school and local community colleges. The career and technical programs that are available are: Business Management & Administration, Education & Training, Engineering & Technology, Hospitality & Tourism, as well as a variety of other programs.

Calvin Hunsinger School is a kindergarten through 12th grade behavior center in Pinellas County, Florida. Calvin Hunsinger is a Title I school with 100% of the students on free breakfast and lunch. 35% of the entire school is proficient in reading and a 38% average for proficiency in mathematics. Calvin Hunsinger has a 50% graduation rate, which indicates that only half of the students at our school graduate. When speaking to the principal, Mr. Keimig, it was realized that behavioral data is at an all time high and needs to be the focus for the upcoming school year.

I performed my field experience at Chiefland Elementary. Chiefland is a very small town with the population of six thousand. There are over eight hundred students enrolled at Chiefland Elementary. There are fifty-two instructional staff members and two administers. In those fifty-two staff members, there is one African American teacher and one male teacher; the rest are women. This is a white dominate school. In the school there is 73% Caucasian students, 17% African American students, and 4% Hispanic students. There is only 3% of students that are ESOL and 5% are Gifted and Talented. This semester we learned that in small areas and with low income schools, there are more Hispanics and African American people. In this case, Chiefland Elementary

However, the Supreme Court heard all five cases as the following: Briggs v. Elliot, Davis v. Board of education of Prince Edward County which the main concern was on the constitutionality of state sponsored segregation in public schools, and etc. Furthermore, the segregation kept lingering in the schools, and according to Patterson, (2001), “the state-sponsored, constitutionally protected system of racial discrimination and segregation that deliberately disadvantaged more than 10 million black people in the South and parts of the border states.” (p.xvi) meaning that as long as segregation was around than many blacks would be at a disadvantage to state sponsored education. However, the procedure that was necessary in coming to a decision proved

Based on my personal experience, I could not fully grasp the idea when I first hear about the non-profit program called Teach for America. I am originally from a country where one must spend four years in institution specially designed for prospect teachers. After four year education, a person finally qualifies to take notorious teaching certification exam. Not everyone with four year degree in teacher’s university passes the exam. And that is not the end either. After obtain a certification, trainee teacher must serve minimum one year before really start teach. Encountering the teacher’s university itself requires a high high school GPA and College entrance exam score. Since teacher is considered as a government worker, all the benefits comes from the government itself, therefore all tuition and even dormitory are free. After going through all the hardship, a person becomes a teacher and he or she is certified for rest of the life. I know specific step of each stage of becoming teacher because both of my parents were teachers and my aunts are currently working as a teacher. With this background, I simply cannot believe that people are only receiving a five weeks training before actually start teaching children. I would be surprise if it is five months. However, those who accepted as a Teach for America only receives an intensive five weeks training and that are all. It is very true that trainees are all from prestigious schools like Harvard, Yale and many more. The

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) was founded in April 1916 by eight local teachers in Winnetka, Illinois. The union began to rise and drew more members during World War I when school boards were pressuring and intimidating teachers to resign from the union. From this time, the union fought for tenure laws and academic freedoms of teachers whose belief were investigated, following the “Red scare” hysteria. Fast forward to the 21st century, now governed by elected officers and delegates to the union’s biennial convention, the AFT represents about 80,000 early childhood teachers and 250,000 retiree members. The national union represents 1.6 million pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel;

Pleasanton Tutoring, Inc. is a tutoring service that is located in Pleasanton, California. Their services include subject tutoring, SAT and ACT test preparation tutoring, and AP class tutoring. Pleasanton Tutoring, Inc. brings the SAT Mastery Prep-PLUS and ACT Mastery Prep-PLUS. They offer the SAT and ACT 1-on-1 tutoring for a price of $69/hour. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, Pleasanton Tutoring, Inc. has won the Pleasanton Weekly Readers’ Choice awards.

Cathedra School provides K-8 high quality liberal education and hand-on learning opportunities based on STEAM model, as well as an individualized attention for our students, and a serie of educational experiences such as arts, music, sports, and community services beyond the classroom.

The conditions that the American Federation of Teachers fights for are important not only for the well-being of teachers, but also for the success of students. This union does not focus solely on their own benefits, wages, and other measures of wealth, but they fight for the causes that they are passionate about. Fortunately, the American Federation of Teachers is an impactful union that has the ability to make a difference in the issues that are most concerning. This kind of power is unique to unions, because when people bind together to fight for a mutual benefit, the impact is much greater. However, the American Federation of Teachers individually develops a voice that cannot be ignored.

Athens, P.A. (WENY) -- Teachers in the Athens Area School District went on strike Monday morning.

“As the school's Colonel Mark Morgan informed the Department of Defense just before the vote in Congress: ‘Some of your bosses have told us that they can't support anything with the name “School of the Americas” on it. Our proposal addresses this concern. It changes the name.’ Paul Coverdell, the Georgia senator who had fought to save the school, told the papers that the changes were ‘basically cosmetic’ (Monbiot, 2001).” Koopman (2008: 828-829) writes in similar vein: “In 1996, after copies were leaked, leading to intense grassroots and Congressional Freedom of Information Act pressure, the Pentagon formally released seven training manuals used for nearly 10 years at the SOA. The manuals explicitly recommend targeting union organizers and

For example, one class made placement for a local soup kitchen. The children created and donated drawings on recycled office paper and their parents later helped them to deliver them on ongoing bases to the kitchen. The children often accompanied their parents to the kitchens and were able to make friends with the disadvantaged children. While speaking with those children, the class found out that they lack essential toys and books and decided to create a specific book drive. Fox believes such practices are helping young children to get rid of negative stigma and “be taught to work with their naturally caring heart and critical eye to develop a sense of social justice through explicit teaching” (Fox, Kathy, p. 1). Such program can teach privileged children to respect poverty and make them used to assist those in needs. Poverty awareness is also helpful for the disadvantaged children, because after it they become better understood and more liked by their classmates and they start feeling more welcomed at school (Fox, Kathy, p. 1-9). This program would be quite easy to fund. It just requires one teacher in every school to work for one or two more hours every week. The average salary of a teacher is about 27.28$ an hour (John, Ciaran). There are 98817 schools in the US, so to provide such volunteer opportunities for everyone, the government would