I am a Houston teacher who wants to communicate with TFA teachers. I respect your work, but believe TFA leaders are too close to conservatives. They blame schools and teachers, not our unequal society, for every education failing. This goes back to TFA's founding, when Wendy Kopp built an alliance with Union Carbide, whose negligence caused 100,000 casualties in India, and continued with her hookup with the Edison Project, which wanted to replace public schools with corporate schools.
Its interesting that Teach for America developed a model so similar to Drucker's idea of Management by Objectives etc.
And because of that similarity its all the more interesting that Teach for America is often chided for being unsympathetic to veteran teachers and community leaders or disparaging "ineffective" teachers.
Drucker "assumed that his readers were intelligent, rational, hardworking people of good will. If their organizations struggled, he believed it was usually because of outdated ideas, a narrow conception of problems, or internal misunderstandings" TFA alums like Michelle Rhee (DC Chancellor) don't make those same assumptions about career teachers.
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I am a Houston teacher who wants to communicate with TFA teachers. I respect your work, but believe TFA leaders are too close to conservatives. They blame schools and teachers, not our unequal society, for every education failing. This goes back to TFA's founding, when Wendy Kopp built an alliance with Union Carbide, whose negligence caused 100,000 casualties in India, and continued with her hookup with the Edison Project, which wanted to replace public schools with corporate schools.
JesseAlred 2 years ago
Its interesting that Teach for America developed a model so similar to Drucker's idea of Management by Objectives etc.
And because of that similarity its all the more interesting that Teach for America is often chided for being unsympathetic to veteran teachers and community leaders or disparaging "ineffective" teachers.
knsummers 3 years ago
Drucker "assumed that his readers were intelligent, rational, hardworking people of good will. If their organizations struggled, he believed it was usually because of outdated ideas, a narrow conception of problems, or internal misunderstandings" TFA alums like Michelle Rhee (DC Chancellor) don't make those same assumptions about career teachers.
knsummers 3 years ago