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February 6, 2011

What football can teach school reformers

Larry Lee:

The Birmingham school board plans to hire 60 Teach for America teachers over the next three years in an effort to bring more innovation to low-performing schools.

TFA is a privately run program that recruits recent college graduates, gives them five weeks of training in how to teach and sends them across the country for two years to work in largely under-performing schools.

In addition to paying their salaries, the Birmingham school system will also pay $5,000 per year per new hire to TFA for training.

On Jan. 15, I sat with my son, and 70,000 others, watching Auburn University celebrate winning the BCS national football championship because what my alma mater has just done could be a great example for Superintendent Witherspoon and members of the Birmingham school board.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 6, 2011 1:42 AM
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