Performance Versus Promises: An Evaluation of Teach for America's Research Page

Teach for America is a widely praised program that puts teachers, usually liberal arts graduates from highly selective colleges and universities with minimal pedagogical training, into school classrooms.After laying off 300 veteran teachers in what was billed as a necessary budgetary move, Huntsville City Schools Board of Education announced a program to add TFA teachers which would cost a minimum of $700,000. This amount would eventually increase to $1.7 million. The contract stipulation that at least 170 TFA recruits would be hired in four, years makes the possible salary expense close to $ 2 million.