An Education Cartel?

Frederick M. Hess on a coalition that is trying to shut down "Teach for America":

TFA, which this year is providing more than 5,000 teachers to over two dozen low-income communities, recruits talented young college graduates into teaching and offers an accelerated, alternative program that gets them into classrooms in just a few months after they graduate. A 2005 survey by Kane, Parsons, and Associates found that 74% of principals regard TFA teachers as more effective than other beginning teachers, and 63% regard these recent graduates as more effective than their teaching faculty as a whole. The talent drawn to public schools by TFA has included the founders of the heralded KIPP academies and the dynamic new chancellor of the Washington, DC Schools.