NY Times - The actor Matt Damon and his mother, a professor of education, turned down an award from the country's largest teachers union after reading an opinion article that the union's president had co-authored with the founder of Teach for America.
Writing that she was "confused by your collaboration" with Teach for America, Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige said she and her son, Mr. Damon, no longer desired to be nominated for the National Education Association's Friend of Education Award. "I am very familiar with TFA and believe that its short-term, minimal training of teachers undermines teacher quality and harms children who too often get an inadequate education with its teachers," the e-mail states.
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