economy after 1989 – the development of investments, TFA and the persons employed, the number of retail outlets, the turnover …

performance in reading, according to the findings from the first national evaluation of the impact of TFA teachers on student … learning. The large-scale random assignment study, which compared the performance of TFA corps members to that of other novice …

, the authors find that TFA teachers had a positive impact on math achievement and no impact on reading achievement. The … instruction. There were no impacts on other outcomes such as attendance, promotion, or disciplinary incidents, but TFA teachers …

schools and describes the experience from one such study of Teach For America (TFA). The article concludes that within …-school random assignment studies such as the TFA evaluation are challenging but may also be feasible and generate useful evidence. …

Teach For America (TFA) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged … students by recruiting and training teachers to work in low-income schools. In 2010, TFA launched a major expansion effort …

where they constitute nearly 40 percent of the workforce. © 2014 Association for Education Finance and Policy …