June 22, 2007
New Teachers Get a Crash Course
Late one afternoon at Westlake Middle School, two math-and-science teachers sit in an empty sixth-grade classroom, anxiously discussing the progress they want their students to make before summer vacation.
Monica Rother and Roddy Theobald are part of Teach for America, the organization that dispatches college graduates to underserved schools. Both are working 60-hour weeks, trying to meet the program's goal that students make "significant gains," or one-and-a-half grade levels of
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