The Weekly Standard uses a book review about  Teach for America to talk about the state of teaching today.

It sounds like the organization is doing some good:

... many of TFA's 20,000 alumni are now at the forefront of the burgeoning education reform movement. TFA alums are fueling what the Washington Post calls the "TFA insurgency" by starting successful charter schools, such as the growing KIPP Academy network, and assuming leadership positions in school systems across the country, including the District of Columbia, where Michelle Rhee, a TFA alum, was appointed chancellor last year.