two alternating views of tfa

From Gary Rubinstein TFA '91: 

Well, my most significant criticism is that their exaggerated claims of success end up, I think, harming the education system in a couple of different ways. For instance, they claim that their first year teachers are doing really well, like on their website, it says that 41 percent of the first years achieve a year and a half worth of progress in one year.

From Heather Harding, TFA Senior VP of Community Engagement:


First, we are recruiting leaders from all across the country and it's a highly selective process. In your intro, you noted we have got 48,000-plus applications for 5,000 slots, so we really are sort of weeding out people or looking for people with strong academic content. That is the first sort of cut at our training.