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Back in the day, when I was teaching ESL and Spanish literacy in Argentina, my good friend and curriculum writing buddy (who is French) was explaining to me in French why she found American pedagogy to be lacking (so excuse if I misunderstood ever so slightly amiga!). Basically she (somewhat ironically for those of us who have thought about social mobility or the lack thereof in Europe) wondered how we could possibly convince kids that they too could become educatied and live the good life, when that was statistically unlikely to be the case. regardless of the irony, it’s a totally fair point. I mean even if every single student TFA teachers teach makes it ‘out the hood’ (or whatever other concupiscible phrase you want to use) there’s still a ‘hood, there’s still the institutionalized poverty and racism that created the problem in the first place.  Read more...