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Teach For America Corps Maintenance Practices And Long-Term Educational Change, Ashlee Brook Anderson
Teach For America Corps Maintenance Practices And Long-Term Educational Change, Ashlee Brook Anderson
Doctoral Dissertations
Teach For America (TFA), a non-profit organization that recruits top-performing recent college graduates and professionals into two-year teaching commitments in low-income urban and rural public school districts, remains a hot topic of research and debate in the education sector. With this dissertation, I explore how TFA is actively preparing its recruits (via its pre- and in-service support practices) for long-term investments in educational change, both inside the classroom and beyond. I do so via interviews with five TFA alumni (four identified by TFA and one by social media) who are no more than three years removed from the program and …