Teach for America - listening to criticism and changing

”Since its founding in 1989, critics both from within and outside the tight-knit Teach for America family have called for the group to reassess its model of recruiting elite young college graduates and career-changers to teach for two years in low-income schools after a brief summer crash course. They have argued that teaching is a complex skill that cannot be adequately taught in such a short period of time. They have said that asking young people to commit just two years to the job sends the wrong message: that teaching is temporary missionary work, not a respectable, lifelong profession.”

Now Teach for America is listening to criticism and changing.

(whole text here: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/5/6079493/teach-for-america-criticism-changing)