Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America, (Paperback)

from brianjungwi

As a former Teach for America teacher who taught in Los Angeles, I could perhaps be the target audience for this book. Aptly named "Relentless Pursuit" follows the lives of four first year teachers and other young education reformers associated with Teach for America. Donna Foote captures many of...

from livebug

Donna Foote does a pretty good job of balanced reporting as she follows several TFA "corps members" through their first year in an LA high school. She represents their passion and energy, their disillusionment and "reillusionment", and their successes without completely endorsing The Program. As ...

from mmillet

This book follows the immensely popular yet controversial Teach for America (TFA) organization. TFA is an organization trying to close the achievement gap by putting educated 'teachers' into under performing schools for a couple of years. The recruits work on a masters and view the experience as ...

from lalalibrarian

I'm putting this in the "tragic" category because it's giving me and my husband serious PTSD. :)

from debnance

Does teaching have to be a twenty-hour-a-day job? Can it be a lifelong profession or does everyone burn out after a couple of years? Why is it so difficult? Why aren't more children learning? How can we make it better?This is the story of a group of Teach for America teachers working in one of th...