You bet this article sounds like an advertisement rather than an encyclopedic lemma The problem not only with the lemma but with the movement Teach First is that the goals are ill defined When is Teach First a success When is it a failure It is easy to throw public money around and start well intended projects It is harder to set clear goals and reach them In my country The Netherlands the ministry of Education is inspired by Teach First and Teach for America and spends an awful lot of public money to educate 19 high potential graduates this year Easily triple the sum of money spent on raising ordinary teachers The promise Teach first for two years 10 hours a week then we ll promise you a job outside education The quite unhidden message is Don t take education seriously as a career opportunity Don t become a teacher And 19 graduates The Netherlands has a lack of 5 000 academic graduates entering education No graduate in their right mind wants to enter an underpaid underappreciated and overworkloaded job unless the economic crisis forces them to or unless it is their road to a guaranteed McKinsey job But this is an encyclopedic lemma not an opinion If you want to add facts add the number of graduates still working in education two years after completion of the Teach First project I think those numbers are in themselves both factual and critical enough