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In The News, Management Consultants, Teach First, Teach for America, UFT, Working Conditions
Monday, May 30th, 2011
A very revealing story regarding the employment practices of Teach For America has emerged Stateside that has worrying implications for Teach First and other Teach For All organisation recruits. In a New York Daily News article‘Amid threat of layoffs, city is recruiting 500 new teachers for next fall‘ we are told that ‘even as the [...]
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Cambridge Assessment, In The News, Media Watch, Testing
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
Despite its Reithian foundations, the BBC and its Education journalists in particular seem to be dishing out free ad space. In ‘New Exam Weapon Against Exam Cheating‘ the Beeb declare that new computerised techniques devised by Cambridge Assessment will be able to better spot exam cheating. And for that we should all be grateful. However, [...]
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Free Schools, In The News, Teach First, UFT
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
A May 18th lawsuit organised by teaching union UFT and the NAACP against school charterisation in NYC has been likened to the battle against racial segregation in schools witnessed at Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1950s and seen also as symptomatic of a worrying new phase in middle class flight. In language all too familiar [...]
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In The News, Teach First
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
Sad to see that undertrained and inexperienced Teach First ambassadors are being sought for advanced teaching posts in the UK. “Location: South East jobs Salary: £26000 to £40000 per annum Date posted: 27/05/2011 18:22 Job type: Permanent Company: Michael Page Education Contact: Dominique Bennett Ref: Totaljobs/MPTJ13152007 Job ID: 50708634 A Teach First Teacher/ AST Teacher [...]
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Education Business, In The News, Management Consultants, Managerialism, Teach First
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
With UK Education Secretary Gove’s approval rating among teachers on a par with that of Col. Gaddafi among Libyan rebels, it is eyebrow-raising to say the least that he aims to push through reforms that would see teachers from Oz, NZ and other select countries being allowed to teach in the UK without undergoing retraining [...]
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CfBT, In The News, Philanthropy, Private Schools, Teach First
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
We cheered when reading that the UK’s Charity Tribunal is about to pass judgement on the status of the 1200 or so independent fee-paying schools that still believe they warrant some kind of discount for teaching the rich. Of course the schools PR organisation – the ISC – and their supporters are trying their best [...]
