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Article: Why we partner with teach for America: Changing the conversation: three deans explain why their schools are glad to work with teach for America and describe how they provide comprehensive teacher preparation programs to TFA corps members.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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WE HAVE been invited to respond to Megan Hopkins' article because our schools partner with Teach for America (TFA) to prepare corps members in our graduate programs. Why? Because we maintain a deep commitment to preparing and placing effective, knowledgeable, and caring teachers in every classroom. Thus we seek out viable partners who can help in our efforts to counteract the impact on students of extreme teacher shortages and diminishing confidence in the positive outcomes of teacher education programs. We partner with TFA to provide comprehensive teacher preparation programs--not mere backdoor or emergency approaches. Our programs actively support new teachers.
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