TFA members attend a summer institute that involves observing veteran teachers, practice teaching in a collaborat-ing summer school, and coursework covering leadership, instructional planning, classroom management, diversity, learning theory, and literacy development

Schools in these areas typically struggle to attract higher quality teachers—as measured by licensure tests, undergraduate institution selectivity, and SAT scores—and struggle even more to retain them

recruiting noneducation majors from prestigious universities, remaining selective, embedding members in a resource-rich social network, and increasing access and reducing the costs for its members to connect to nonteaching career ladders, has increased its credential’s exchange value relative to other preparation programs. T

Winning an election does not entitle one to upend our basic values.

But given what opposition to “political correctness” has licensed, it time to retire the term.

Black students, gay students, Hispanic students, Muslim students, disabled students, female students – all of them now fear that the basic security and acceptance on which they relied is at risk. Help lines are flooded with calls. Those who seek to count hateful incidents report an upsurge.

that term and its usage and the complex issues underlying it.

Whatever rhetorical value the term may have once had is far more than offset by what has been unleashed in the name of resistance to it since the presidential election.

They have begun to do things they clearly don’t really want to be doing, and, to do so, they are (1) abandoning their sense of human dignity and (2) risking the appearance of cowardice.

reduce their fealty to their native country and regard it as secondary, subordinate, in order to emphasize their whiteness

I did not feel that I should lie to my new college friends, especially at N.Y.U., where we are supposed to be open to hearing opposing views, able to discuss them and put any bias aside.

What I do not understand is hatred toward one another. Supporters of both parties have misunderstood and fueled hate out of reckless emotion and ignorance.

Neumann says he is not just providing space and office supplies, but “building a community of creators” that “inspires people to do what they love.”

but there are also lawyers, nonprofits, movie producers, political consultants, and a beef jerky brand.

Such pathetic illusions of privilege are linked to a general idea of happiness

Seeing poverty exclusively as an economic problem takes its pervasiveness in humanity for granted because it ignores how the notion of homelessness can also be extended to talk about the mental state of refuge.

hey are not perceived as privileged, active observers who search for social meanings in the space they occupy

Human relationships and contact are thoroughly influenced by images of commodities people are made to feel they need,

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lot of conversation between young and old people about how the city has changed, or why we live where we do

cotton ball incident shows that racism is not a dead issue

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becomes just another part of the landscape

Social norms encouraged some to threaten undesirable persons with violence if they were to enter or remain in certain

“allows government to shape our actions with-out our perceiving that our experience has been deliberately shaped.”