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It’s hard to be mad at Teach for America (TFA). The program has done so much over the past 15 years to draw attention to the inexcusable inequalities that exist in our public schools. It’s led so many of the brightest students in the nation to seriously consider teaching as a post-college option—eight percent of us here at the College applied last year, and numbers will probably continue to rise.Yet, for a program bringing top minds into the education world, TFA is sending some very dangerous messages about the teaching...
...Saunders said. “We try to have a little bit of everything.” The Institute of Politics pitched political and public-service internships abroad, while the Summer Institute in Art Museum Studies at Smith College boasted a new program that aims to teach students how art museums work. WorldTeach, which is based at the Kennedy School of Government, allows individuals to live and work as teachers in developing countries. At another table, the New England Aquarium offered a variety of internships dealing with animal husbandry—jobs that include feeding and cleaning the animals...
...some courses strive to limit students to a single subject, VES 124r, “The Narrative in Painting,” is a blank canvas. The class is taught by Visiting Professor Maureen Gallace, a working artist who actually commutes from New York on a weekly basis to teach the course...
...It’s a multi-religious, multi-ethnic democracy that has existed in some form or another for many decades,” said Dormandy. “There is a lesson to be learned from them and I wish they would take a more proactive role to teach that...
...whole field of Middle Eastern studies has been severely compromised,” she said. “What have the universities done to teach us anything meaningful about what’s going on there? Anything we’ve learned has been in spite of what’s being taught in universities, not because...