'City Journal': Experiences at Teach for America

Joshua Kaplowitz joined Teach for America three years ago, and ended up getting sued for $20-million by a parent who accused him of physically harming her son. He provides a first-person account of his year teaching in a troubled District of Columbia school in City Journal (Winter).

Teach for America is a national charity that trains people who didn't get education degrees to teach. Mr. Kaplowitz says during the training, the charity instilled its philosophy "that if you set a