“It may well be that Teach For America’s greatest contribution to education will not be the kids who are helped or the talented young men and women who develop a connection with and affection for public education, but its relentless self-examination — a process that quite simply puts the rest of teacher education to shame. If Teach For America can work hard to figure out why some of its trainees become better teachers than others, why can’t regular schools of education?” John Merrow
I was reading an article in the Huffington Post about Teach for America and really related to John Merrow’s final statement.  There is so much criticism about Teach for America, but it’s hard to argue with the fact that it’s an organization that constantly challenges itself to do better. Is in the end-all, be-all solution for fixing what ails the American education…