UC Berkeley, Northwestern, Wellesley Top Teach for America 2012 List

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<p>Teach</a> For America Announces The Schools Contributing The Most Graduates To Its 2012 Teaching Corps | Teach For America</p>

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NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 —Teach For America today released its annual ranking of the colleges and universities contributing the greatest number of graduates to its 2012 teaching corps. The University of California-Berkeley is the No. 1 contributor among large schools with 88 graduates beginning their two-year Teach For America commitment this fall. Northwestern University tops all medium-sized schools, contributing 63 graduates. Among small schools, Wellesley College ranks highest with 21 graduates joining the corps. All three schools have appeared on the top contributors list since it was first released in 2008

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[leanid]

<p>Good to see that most, if not all, of the best colleges in the country are on this list.</p>

[Beliavsky]

<p>I think prospective TFA applicants should read the book “Bad Students, Not Bad Schools” by Robert Weissberg. The book has a web site. Differences in teacher quality explain little of the variation in academic achievement.</p>

[cellardweller]

<p>Robert Weissberg is a well known racist, white nationalist, and eugenics proponent, member of the New Century Foundation spewing racial slurs in the guise of serious scholarship while rubbing shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists and writing for the whiite supremacist American Renaissance magazine and web site. </p>

<p>Some quotes:

white nationalism itself should be abandoned in favor of finding segregated white enclaves to live in—which is what many white people are already doing.

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racial nationalism “is intuitive and written in our genes” and that even children are conscious of race—is a huge advantage for those who want to build a racial movement

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Black-white co-existence is a little like having an incurable medical condition

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The black-white difference in cognitive ability is, at least for the foreseeable future, both large and intractable. The gap’s source — whether genetic or environmental — is irrelevant for present purposes. Remaining differences in accomplishment cannot be eliminated by combating discrimination, racism or any other nefarious white scheme, regardless of what blacks and their white allies contend. Top-down, hugely expensive remedial efforts to equalize intelligence have failed, and effective eugenic solutions are not possible in today’s political and moral climate.

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