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«It appears that TFA alumni candidates running for school boards paid attention to both national and local messages because of a growing recognition that local politics is far from dead,» said Jacobsen, associate professor of teacher education and lead investigator on the study.

Prior to coming to the Ed School, Donaldson admits that she never thought about studying TFA, but, considering her experience as a former teacher and her sister's participation in TFA, she became more curious about retention rates among graduates of the organization

The findings might have been strengthened if measures of teacher ability had been included in the analysis, because the alternatively certified teachers in the study, from Teach For America (TFA) and the NYC Teaching Fellows program, represent high - achieving students from the nation's elite universities.

A September 2013 study from Mathematica Policy Research found that TFA middle and high school math teachers outperform other math teachers in their schools, by the equivalent of students gaining 3 points on a 100 - point test.

EN: Studies have shown that most TFA teachers leave the classroom after two to three years.

Across the four cohorts of teachers included in this study who completed two years or more of teaching, more than a third of TFA teachers remained past their commitment.

Our study examined the performance of TFA and non-TFA teachers from two perspectives.

The study found that students with TFA teachers attained greater gains in math and equal gains in reading compared with students of other teachers in the study, even those with certified teachers and with veteran teachers.

Such teachers need to be included because the purpose of this study is to compare TFA teachers with the pool of potential hires available to the district.

As a group, the studies tend to show that the students of uncertified TFA recruits underachieve when compared to students of new certified teachers, but this gap tends to disappear as the TFA recruits obtain professional knowledge through coursework and certification.

JM: External research has validated TFA's findings on teacher effectiveness: a June 2004 study by Mathematica Policy Research found that TFA teachers perform at least as well as traditionally prepared and certified teachers in similar schools, while a 2006 study published in Education Next (see Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger, «Photo Finish,» research, Winter 2007) found the same to be true in New York City.

The 2004 Mathematica study says that «TFA teachers did not have an impact on average reading achievement.

An extensive PDK study shows that nearly two - thirds of TFA teachers continue as public school teachers beyond their two - year commitment.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

OMG, the study that, when you get to the fine print says, «a TFA «teacher» will have the same or no worse impact on * student test results * as an education major at the same level of experience as the TFA» — it is actually not even that nuanced.

The study offers few clues about what caused the TFA teachers to do better.

Despite a series of non-peer-reviewed studies funded by TFA and other organizations that purport to show benefits of TFA teachers, peer - reviewed research on their impact continues to produce a mixed picture.

I read an article yesterday about a new study which «proves» how effective TFA teachers and TFA alumni teachers are.

A 2004 randomized experiment, also by the Washington - based Mathematica, found score boosts among elementary students taught by TFA teachers, too, but that study was criticized in part because the control group of teachers had lower rates of certification, less formal education preparation, and less experience in student - teaching than a national sample.

TFA is among the most studied teacher - preparation programs in the nation.

An independent study commissioned by SFUSD in 2012 found that new TFA teachers had higher ELA (English Language Arts) and Math acceleration scores than other new teachers, and similar acceleration to veteran teachers.

Based on this study of teacher prep programs, UNC found that TFA teachers blew away EVERY other cohort.

The same is true for the very mixed results of studies about the effectiveness of TFA teachers compared to non-TFA teachers.

Kopp said «we can philosophize» about better training methods, but cited a recent study by Mathematica Policy Research that found children taught by TFA teachers advanced more in math than children taught by veteran teachers, though they still scored at very low levels.

The study looked only at middle and high school math teachers — a small percentage of TFA's corps.