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Readings Due:
Required:
- Anonymous Oakland After School Teacher (2012). The Deceptive Promise of Charter Schools: A New Orleans Case Study. (pp. 1-8)
- Scott, J. & Trujillo, T. (2016). Reframing Teach For America: A Conceptual Framework for the Next Generation of Scholarship. (pp. 2-24)
- The Onion (2012).https://www.theonion.com/my-year-volunteering-as-a…
- Lanier, H.K. (2012). Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America. Chapter 2 pp. 14-19 excluding final paragraph)
- http://www.swaraj.org/illich_hell.htm
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Supplemental Material:
- Former literacy tutors https://buildteachers.wordpress.com/ about their Teach for America experiences. These tutors are also former UC Berkeley students and worked with an on-campus organization called BUILD
- Questions to answer in the CRR . Choose three questions and make sure to talk about both Teach for America and Charter schools:
- Do you believe that Charter Schools and Teach for America are what Quart refers to as “Dystopian Social Net”? (Reference CRR 3 for a refresher) Why or why not?
- What role does entrepreneurship have in US schooling?
- Considering “The Deceptive Promise of Charter Schools: A New Orleans Case Study,” an Oakland teacher argues that large corporations have a profound impact on schools. What examples does she use to support this claim?
- What are the drawbacks of using charter schools to bridge the opportunity gap in low-income communities as articulated by an Oakland teacher in “The Deceptive Promise of Charter Schools: A New Orleans Case Study”?
- What do Scott and Trujillo argue is TFA’s greatest point of impact and how does it operate in society?
- What is the relationship between Lanier’s experience in TFA with the white racial frame?
- What is the relationship between the documentary Education INC and the Scott & Trujillo reading?
- What connections can you articulate between this week’s readings? More specifically, how do these readings give us a sense of TFA’s perspective on the purpose of education, how we define strong teachers and schools, and what institutions influence schools?
- How does Scott & Trujillo define a strong TFA volunteer and applicant? How might these qualities support TFA’s reinforcement of ideology and power structures?