Over on the Education Policy Blog, Nancy Flannagan calls for a policy role for veteran teachers. We agree!

But I'm dismayed that her post pits TFA teachers against NBPTS teachers and suggests that the former are looked upon favorably in the policy world for reasons of institutional snobbery. TFA corps members are present in the policy world in no small part because of a purposeful effort on behalf of the organization to help them become so. There's no reason why those tools and support should be limited to a single organization, as we are proving here.